Water Resources of Colorado
Water, Energy, and Biogeochemical Budgets (WEBB)
These web pages describe research being conducted in the Rocky Mountain National Park. If you would like information about visiting the Park, click on the URL for the official Rocky Mountain National Park Service Home Page: (http://www.nps.gov/romo/).
Loch Vale Watershed,
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The U.S. Geological Survey is conducting interdisciplinary research at the Loch Vale Watershed as part of its Water, Energy, Biogeochemical Budgets (WEBB) program. The focus of the WEBB program is to improve our understanding of processes that control the exchange of water, energy, solutes, and gases between the atmosphere and terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. The Loch Vale Watershed is one of five WEBB sites where long-term data collection of key environmental variables and fluxes as well as shorter-term process based studies are conducted (Hirsch, 1998). The other sites include the Sleepers River Watershed in northeastern Vermont, the Trout Lake Watershed in northern Wisconsin, the Panola Mountain Watershed near Atlanta, Georgia, and the Luquillo Experimental Forest in eastern Puerto Rico. These sites were chosen to encompass a diverse range in climate, hydrology, and biogeochemistry (Hirsch, 1998).
This page is at URL: http://co.water.usgs.gov/lochvale/index.html
Please send questions and (or) comments about the Colorado WEBB project to: co.lochvale@usgs.gov
Maintained by: webmaster_co@usgs.gov
Last Modified: 6/29/99
