Explore forty-two years of field notes from the Loch Vale watershed, Rocky Mountain National Park
By Fort Collins Science Center
January 6, 2025
USGS recently released 42 years (1981-2023) of scanned field notebooks from long-term research and monitoring in the Loch Vale Watershed, Rocky Mountain National Park.
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Historically, USGS researchers recorded field observations in field notebooks, which USGS has collected and stored. These field notebooks continue to inform research.
The field notebooks for Loch Vale watershed and other sites in Rocky Mountain National Park include sample collection type by date for long-term biogeochemical and ecological monitoring that took place from 1983-2023 in order to ask questions about ecosystem structure and function and how mountain ecosystems respond to atmospheric deposition, environmental variation, and human impact.
Cataloging the field notebooks was supported by a grant from the USGS National Geological and Geophysical Data Preservation Program (NGGDPP).
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