Seney National Wildlife Refuge

Studies and Monitoring

Seney Monitoring Station
Seney Monitoring Station

The Seney National Wildlife Refuge (NWR) has its own environmental concerns based on its unique ecology. Air quality studies and monitoring at Seney NWR focus on acid deposition, mercury, ozone, and visibility. Click on the tabs below to review air quality studies and access information on air quality monitoring near the Seney NWR.

Monitoring
Studies

Monitoring

Air quality monitoring information and data access:

Air Pollutant/Impact	Monitoring Program	Sites and Data Access
Nitrogen and sulfur	National Atmospheric Deposition Program NADP	Seney NWR site MI48 NADP site MI48
Ozone	Michigan Department of Environmental Quality MDEQ	AQS site 761530001 EPA Air Quality Data Mart
Mercury	Mercury Deposition Network NADP MDN	Seney NWR site MI48 NADP MDN MI48
Visibility	Interagncy Monitoring of Protected Visual Environment IMPROVE Midwest Hazecam Midwest Hazecam	Visibility Information Exchange Web System VIEWS

Abbreviations in the above table:

IMPROVE: Interagency Monitoring of Protected Visual Environments
MDN: Mercury Deposition Network
NADP: National Atmospheric Deposition Program
VIEWS: Visibility Information Exchange Web System
EPA: Environmental Protection Agency
MDEQ: Michigan Department of Environmental Quality

Studies

Studies that are being performed within the Seney National Wildlife Refuge:

The FWS has commissioned ozone injury studies at Seney during the years 1999-2000 and 2003-2004.
Seney Veg Ozone Injury (PDF: 1.5MB)
New Litterfall mercury monitoring initiative to complement the Mercury Deposition Network (MDN) monitoring for mercury in precipitation. Litterfall Mercury Monitoring

Last updated: November 13, 2012