• Overview
• Research at the Forest
• Lab and Housing Resources
• Environmental Monitoring Network
• Data Resources
• Small Grants
• Green Building and Smart Features

The Black Rock Forest environmental monitoring network currently includes six stations. All the information obtained from these stations is compiled on computer dataloggers and most is automatically collected each hour via radiotelemetry at a base station in the Science Center.

• Open Lowland Station (near the Old Headquarters Building at one of the lowest elevations in the Forest): sensors for air temperature, humidity, wind speed and direction, barometric pressure, precipitation, soil temperature, and solar radiation.

• Ridgetop Station (on top of Frog Hill, one of the higher locations in the Forest): sensors for air temperature, humidity, wind speed and direction, barometric pressure, precipitation, soil temperature, and solar radiation.

• Cascade Brook Stream Station, with 120º v-notch weirand pressure transducer in stilling well; tracks stream depth and flow in real time and, during the growing season, sensors monitor water temperature, pH, conductivity, and dissolved oxygen; data telemetered to the Science Center via repeater station on Hill of Pines.

• Fire Tower Station: sensors for air temperature, humidity, wind speed and direction, and precipitation; web camera with pan and zoom capabilities.

• Two Snow/Energy Balance Stations (near Old Headquarters and the Stone House): net radiometer, snowpack sensors, snow pillow.

• Science Center Station: continuously monitors the Center’s air temperature, humidity, water usage, energy usage, and other parameters particularly of interest in studying the performance of “green” architectural features versus those of traditional structures, including solar panel network, inverters, and dataloggers.This is also the location of the Lamont-Doherty Cooperative Seismographic Network seismic station.