The Sampling Site
Although the day was cloudy and hazy, we still got a good look at the sampling site.
We parked the car on the dirt road and walked back to a little trail down the hill.
Some of the sampling instruments in the distance.
The site contains an instrumented tower plus various samplers near the ground.
This is a wet-dry precipitation sampler. The bucket on the left collects dry deposition. When it starts to rain, the cover moves over it and exposes the rain/snow collector.
Here is a closer view of the wet-dry collector. You can see the rain sensor on the left. When it gets wet, it moves the cover to the left.
An air sampler. They say that on a good day you can see the other side of Lake Champlain from here, but we couldn't. Next time!
You've heard of scarecrows, right? Well, this is a scare-owl. And it works, because no birds were to be seen.