{"id":184,"date":"2011-11-04T15:14:06","date_gmt":"2011-11-04T15:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/envilab\/?page_id=184"},"modified":"2025-12-02T13:29:00","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T18:29:00","slug":"research-stations","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/envilab\/research-stations\/","title":{"rendered":"Field Stations"},"content":{"rendered":"
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HMF with Birch Brook Watershed<\/p><\/div>\n

Our field stations are located in Hopkins Memorial Forest<\/a>, a 2600 acre research forest owned by Williams College<\/a>. The main Weather Station (Station 1<\/a>) is located at 920′ in a 10-acre field. Weather Station 2 is located within a sugar maple stand, Weather Station 3 is located at 2336′ on the\u00a0crest of the Taconic Range in MA., Weather Station 4 is also located in a cleared field but at an elevation 250′ higher than the main station. The 50-m MET tower<\/a> is also located at the crest of the Taconic range in MA. but at an elevation of 2323′.<\/p>\n

Our two stream monitoring<\/a> stations are located on Main Stem of Birch Brook, and the South Branch of Birch Brook at weirs built by the Civilian Conservation Corps in the 1930s.<\/p>\n

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