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Environmental Sciences
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Department
of Environmental Sciences
University
of Virginia
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The Virginia Forest Research
Facility serves the purposes to conduct field research in the general
area of atmosphere-surface interactions and to support teaching
activities in the subjects of atmospheric sciences, ecology and
hydrology. Laboratories are routinely done at the flux tower site in
support of field investigations for undergraduate and graduate
students. Mr. Robert Pace currently owns the property where the tower
is situated. Mr. Pace has already deeded the property to the Department of
Environmental Sciences. The site is located approximately 25
km east of
the University
of Virginia and is about 150 km east of the Blue Ridge
Mountains. A 40-m scaffolding tower, located in the middle of a mixed
deciduous forest, serves as the main platform to make masurements of
atmospheric and biogeochemical state variables. The forest ecosystem is
part of the Piedmont of Virginia. The terrain around the tower is
reasonably flat and ideal to conduct micrometeorological studies. Also,
the fetch around the tower site is adequate to derive reliable flux
densities of energy, mass and momentum.
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