Slide Words: A Global Network

Slide Image: An automated, instrumented buoy floating on the water in Yuan Yang Lake. The same photo is shown one thousand fifty two times (24 rows of 48) to represent the scale of monitoring, along with its cyberinfrastructure, required to monitor on a global scale. Instrumenting lakes at a global scale is a daunting challenge.

Credit: Photo by Grace Shau-Wei Hong, July 2004

Source: Tim Kratz, Trout Lake Station, Center for Limnology, University of Wisconsin-Madison