Crampton Lake NEON - United States of America

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Site Name
Crampton Lake NEON
Short name
CRAM
Country
United States of America
Web Address
https://www.neonscience.org/field-sites/field-sites-map/CRAM
Site Manager
Peter Weishampel
Site Description
Crampton Lake is the core aquatic site in NEON's Great Lakes Domain 05 located on property of the University of Notre Dame Environmental Research Station (UNDERC), which serves as NEON’s core terrestrial site in the Great Lakes Domain. Most of Crampton Lake is in Vilas County, Wisconsin, but a small portion of the northern shore of the lake is across the border, in Gogebic County, Michigan. UNDERC is approximately 7500 acres of mixed and hardwood forests as well as open water and wetlands. Crampton Lake Crampton Lake is approximately 26 hectares surface area. The max depth is about 17.5 meters and average depth around 5 m. Structurally, there are two significant bays and one island. There are two deep holes which account for the ...
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2020-07-27 09:07:17

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General Characteristics and Status
Site Status
Operational
Year Established
2015
Observed properties
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Affiliation and Network Specific Information
Affiliation
GERI✔This site is a verified "GERI" member.
NEON✔ (CRAM)This site is a verified "NEON" member.
Photos
Snow at Crampton Lake
Snow at Crampton Lake
Geographic
Marker
300 km
200 mi
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Centroid/Representative Coordinates

Latitude: 46.21111 Longitude: -89.47825

Size
ca. 100.00ha
Elevation (average)
518.00msl
Elevation (min)
501.00msl
Elevation (max)
538.00msl
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Centroid/representative coordinates [.shp] [.kml]
GEO-BON Biome
Fresh water lakes
Biome
Fresh Water Lakes
Ecosystem Type
Lakes
Fresh Water Lakes
Air Temperature: Average Annual
3.00°C
Precipitation Annual
854.00mm
Geology
The substrate is mostly organic muck, silt, and sand. There are areas where gravel is also common. Crampton has a more complicated topography than the typical kettle lake in the region, but was also carved by retreating glaciers of the Laurentide Ice Shee
Vegetation
The near-shore emergent aquatic vegetation is dominated by pickerelweed (Pontederia cordata), which covers much of the shore. At slightly deeper depths (up to approximately 4 m) bur-reed grass (Sparganium angustifolium) dominates at the surface. Other emergent and floating-leafed plants include pond lilies (Nymphaea odorata and Nuphar sp.) and several pondweeds (Potamogeton spp.). Three-way sedge (Dulichium arundinaceum), a mostly terrestrial species, also occurs in the lake. Submerged vegetation includes two species of quillwort (Isoetes lacustris and I. tenella), pipewort (Eriocaulon aquaticum), dwarf watermilfoil (Myriophyllum tenellum), water lobelia (Lobelia dortmanna), and at least one species of macro-algae (Nitella sp.).
Soils
Coarse, loamy, mixed, superactive, frigid. Argic Fragiaquods.
Hydrology
Crampton Lake is a seepage lake, with no significant surface water inlet or outlet. It is primarily rain-fed, with some contribution from groundwater. There is a small, slowly flowing inlet from a bog on the northeast edge.

Crampton is generally completely ice covered from about late November until late March. It stratifies annually a few weeks after ice off. The mean depth of the metalimnion is roughly 4 to 9 meters. The lake destratifies in early November. Average secchi depth is around 4.5 meters.
Site Type
Platform
Design of Experimentation
mainly experimentation
Scale of Experimentation
catchment scale
Design of Observation
mainly observation
Scale of Observation
entire catchment
Permanent Power Supply
Yes
Accessible All Year
Yes
Permanent Operation
Yes