GLEON Buoy

LSPA’s water quality buoy collects and transmits data every ten minutes 24/7, 365 days of the year on weather and in-lake conditions. This buoy is part of a global buoy network called the Global Lake Ecological Observatory Network (GLEON). Instruments record air temperature, wind speed and direction, humidity, sunlight energy (PAR), water temperature at various depths and dissolved oxygen in the water.

For current, near real time LSPA GLEON buoy data click here: http://www.cs.binghamton.edu/~kchiu/sunapee.html

Current News and Topics

Unusual Aquatic Species & Unidentified Freshwater Organism's in NH
08-11-2008
Presented by Nick Baer, Biology Professor at Colby-Sawyer College and Jody Connor, NHDES Limnology Center Director.

Lake Bottom Mapping - What it Tells Us.
07-24-2008
Prensentation by John Downing, Proffessor at Iowa State

Lake Sunapee buoy wind rose graphs
06-02-2008
Wind direction and freguency on Lake Sunapee from May 27, 2007 to May 28, 2008

How Lakes Freeze
01-28-2008
Recently, I have had several people ask about how lakes freeze. I knew some answers, but as I researched deeper, the freezing of lakes can be complicated!

Dr. David Strayer talks on Invasive Species
12-12-2007
Dr. David Strayer, senior scientist at the Institute for Ecological Studies, spoke at Colby Sawyer College's Ivey Center Earlier this week

Gloeotrichia study
09-01-2007
Scientists work together to study this invasive species.

LSPA's Buoy Data
08-27-2007
LSPA launched its Instrumented buoy on August 27th. This buoy is part of a global network of buoys, measuring lake parameters.

Gleon buoy