Page 19 - Town of Newcomb Newsletter - November 2020

Want to know precisely how much rain and snow has fallen at
the SUNY ESF Huntington Wildlife Forest? A new automated system is
online as of October 16: https://
nadp.slh.wisc.edu/siteOps/ppt/

NY20 is the Site ID; choose the date range
to plot recent precipitation, temperature and
other variables. ESF research technician LJ Mills
maintains all of the equipment and meteoro-

logical data collected on site (see photo).

You can also explore trends in air chemistry in
Newcomb http://nadp.slh.wisc.edu/data/ntn/plots/ntntrends.html?
siteID=NY20. In the 1980s, pH at Huntington Wildlife Forest was
quite acidic at 4.4 pH units; today pH has improved to over 5.2 as a
result of the national Clean Air Amendments of 1990.

ESF belongs to the National Atmospheric Deposition Program which
has included environmental monitoring since 1978. NYSERDA funds

this program.

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