Monitoring air quality at Edwin B. Forsythe Refuge

A solar-powered NDAP station, consisting of a metal frame with two bucket-shaped receptacles, collects precipitation data weekly throughout the year.
Photo By/Credit

Vinny Turner/USFWS

Date Shot/Created
01/10/2022
Media Usage Rights/License
Public Domain
Image
An NADP (National Atmospheric Deposition Program) Station at Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge in New Jersey monitors long-term weather and climate data to assess policies aimed at reducing air pollution and the ecological impacts of atmospheric deposition (like acid rain, mercury, and reactive nitrogen).
Facility
Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge
Ecosystem
Coastal
Subject tags
Environmental quality
Human impacts
Pollution
Research
Science
Wildlife refuges