Current Research

• Peatland function, including studies of plant production, decay, nutrient cycling, and historic acid conditions in peat profile.
• Effects of timber harvest, prescribed burning, fertilizer and herbicide use, and grazing on water yield and quality.
• Guidelines for protecting wetlands while managing for timber.
• Maintenance of long-term records of climate and hydrology.
• Peatland interactions with the atmosphere, including their effect on global climate change.
• The chemistry of rain and snow is studied as part of the National Atmospheric Deposition Program (1 of 200 sites in the U.S.)
• Testing of soil water to determine ecosystem health.
• Water flow, carbon dynamics, nutrient cycling, acid rain, mercury deposition, and the biogeochemistry of peatlands.
• Long-Term Soil Productivity (one of many sites in a national study).