The Upstate Freshwater Institute conducts numerous field monitoring programs and laboratory analyses. These programs support identification of water quality problems, changes in response to natural and anthropogenic influences, and insights into regulating processes.

Field monitoring is conducted on lakes, reservoirs, rivers, streams and embayments. Typical programs include water sample collection for laboratory analysis as well as in situ measurements. Field instrumentation includes a Seabird profiler, spectroradiometer, HydroLab profilers and DataSondes, ISCO samplers, current meters, and thermistor chains.

The Upstate Freshwater Institute is a National Environmental Laboratory Accreditation Conference (NELAC/NELAP accredited laboratory (accreditation held since 1994); NY Laboratory ID No. 11462EPA; Laboratory Code NY01276. The laboratory is well equipped to measure a wide array of constituents that are important to water quality and aquatic ecology.

Selected features of the field and laboratory program are pictured in this collage. To learn more about these topics, click within the approximate boundaries of each photograph.

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