Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest: Mirror Lake Ice Cover 1968 - ongoing

This data set reports ice on and ice off dates for Mirror Lake beginning in 1968 and continuing through the present. Mirror Lake is located within the Hubbard Brook valley in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, and has been the subject of numerous limnological investigations since the early 1960s. These Mirror Lake data are part of the Hubbard Brook Watershed Ecosystem Record (HBWatER), a long-term record of weekly sampling of nine gaged watersheds at Hubbard Brook which includes the stream draining Mirror Lake. The collection and management of the long-term record was initiated in 1963 by Gene E. Likens, F. Herbert Bormann, Robert S. Pierce, and Noye M. Johnson. HBWatER is currently sustained by Tammy Wooster (Cary IES) and Jeff Merriam (USFS) and the dataset is curated and maintained by a team of researchers: Chris Solomon (Cary IES), Emily Bernhardt (Duke), Bill McDowell (UNH), Charley Driscoll (Syracuse U.), Keith Nislow (USFS), and Mark Green (Case Western). Current financial Support for HBWatER is provided by NSF LTREB # 2401760 and the USDA Forest Service Northern Research Station.
These data were gathered as part of the Hubbard Brook Ecosystem Study (HBES). The HBES is a collaborative effort at the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest, which is operated and maintained by the USDA Forest Service, Northern Research Station.