The Next Chapter: The Gunks: Climate Tracking

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Monday, July 18, 2016

Morning Limnology

A Moment From This Morning's Lake Sampling of Lake Mohonk
It's 8AM and I am Already Doing Science!

Collecting Water Samples from the Lake's profile at the surface, 20', and 40' down. We test the temperatures and pH levels of each depth. It's pretty cool; as we can tell when the lake begins to experience seasonal changes like lake turnover and summer thermoclines. We can also add this data to a 120-year history of lake data and determine if climate change is really affecting our lake and changing the normal temperatures and water quality levels.

Friday, March 25, 2016

Hudson Valley Weather Visits the DSRC

Every month, I tabulate the weather records and formalize it into a summary for distribution to the public. Amanda, the Media Associate, posts all of our weather summaries online and shares them on social media. When she posted our February weather summary, it sparked the attention of Hudson Valley Weather. For those of you who do not know, they are the "MountainWeather.com" of the Hudson Valley. They are more reliable than the Weather Channel. Pretty impressive. Majority of the locals of New Paltz swear by Hudson Valley Weather. They have told me that even though this organization started out as a hobby for a bunch of businessmen and engineers, they have been predicting the weather of the region more accurately than the Weather Channel. So, back to sparking their attention. They were so stunned that we had a weather station at Mohonk and wanted to close in on some partnerships with using our data and having access to our summaries. So with that, they wanted to meet us. I felt more like a fan than the celebrity when they met us. We talked about what the Daniel Smiley Research Center does, the history of the weather station and data collection, many of our research projects, and of course, brought them up to the lake and weather box. It was a super great meeting and introduction to each other! Hopefully we will develop some closer ties and able to use each other as we continue the focus on Climate Change.

TheChristyBel