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NH02
Hubbard Brook
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NH02 is located in the Hubbard
Brook Experimental Forest (HBEF), a 3,160-hectare reserve located in the
White Mountain National Forest, near Woodstock, New Hampshire. The
Northeastern Research Station of the U.S. Department of Agriculture -
Forest Service (USFS) established the HBEF in 1955 as a major center for
hydrologic research in New England. In 1963, Dr. F. Herbert Bormann, Dr.
Gene E. Likens and Dr. Noye M. Johnson, then on the faculty of Dartmouth
College, and Dr. Robert S. Pierce of the USFS initiated the Hubbard Brook
Ecosystem Study to study linkages between hydrologic and nutrient flux and
cycling in response to natural and human disturbances, such as air
pollution, forest cutting, land-use changes, increases in insect
populations, and climatic factors. In 1988, the HBEF was designated as a
National Science Foundation Long-Term Ecological Research site. On-going
cooperative efforts among diverse educational institutions, private
institutions, government agencies, foundations, and corporations have
resulted in one of the most extensive and longest continuous data bases
on the hydrology, biology, geology and chemistry of natural ecosystems. |
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Web page was updated
07/09/2008
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