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THOMPSON FARM EARTH SYSTEMS OBSERVATORY<\/strong><\/p>\n

Thompson Farm is a 118-hectare property in Durham, NH, located 3 km southwest of the University of New Hampshire’s Durham campus.\u00a0 The property was donated to UNH in 1972 by Ina Thompson, and serves multiple uses including recreation, timber and biofuel production, hay production, education, and scientific research.<\/p>\n

Thompson Farm is part of a contiguous network<\/a>\u00a0of conserved land owned by UNH, NH Fish and Game, the Town of Durham, and private individuals, and is adjacent to the Federally-designated\u00a0Wild and Scenic Lamprey River<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The UNH community has increasingly focused on Thompson Farm as an ideal local site for a wide range of scientific research activities.\u00a0 In 2001 the NOAA-funded\u00a0AIRMAP program<\/a>\u00a0invested in infrastructure for atmospheric research, which was followed by over a decade of detailed atmospheric chemistry data collection.\u00a0 Since then, a wide variety of ecological, biogeochemical, atmospheric, hydrological, engineering, remote sensing, and forest management research projects have been conducted by UNH and collaborating scientists.<\/p>\n

Infrastructure\u00a0<\/strong>on site includes:<\/p>\n