{"title":"Crampton Lake NEON - United States of America","id":{"prefix":"https:\/\/deims.org\/","suffix":"02958637-043a-4e79-96be-31b47dab72bc"},"type":"site","created":"2020-05-25T09:36:50+02:00","changed":"2025-09-17T13:44:31+02:00","attributes":{"affiliation":{"networks":[{"network":{"name":"GERI","id":{"prefix":"https:\/\/deims.org\/networks\/","suffix":"c3abdc60-49f1-49db-81fe-863b7dbb21d3"}},"siteCode":null,"verified":true},{"network":{"name":"NEON","id":{"prefix":"https:\/\/deims.org\/networks\/","suffix":"fd9fbc88-0baa-4d02-b824-dc29f721782c"}},"siteCode":"CRAM","verified":true}],"projects":null},"contact":{"siteManager":[{"type":"person","name":"Peter Weishampel","email":"pweishampel@battelleecology.org","orcid":null}],"operatingOrganisation":null,"metadataProvider":[{"type":"person","name":"Melissa Marquez","email":"marquez@battelleecology.org","orcid":null}],"fundingAgency":null,"siteUrl":[{"title":null,"value":"https:\/\/www.neonscience.org\/field-sites\/cram"}]},"general":{"abstract":"Crampton Lake (CRAM) is an aquatic NEON field site located in northern Wisconsin in Vilas County near the town of Land O\u0027 Lakes at the Wisconsin\/Michigan border. The site is managed and hosted by The University of Notre Dame Environmental Research Center (UNDERC). Crampton Lake is a clearwater lake with a watershed of roughly 0.6 km2 (148 acres). It has an average depth of 4.6 m (15 ft.) and maximum depth of 19 m (62 ft.). The surface area of Crampton Lake is 0.25 km2 (61 acres). CRAM is surrounded by boggy mixed hardwood\/conifer forests and is located in one of the most lake-abundant regions of the United States. CRAM is located within the Great Lakes Domain (D05), which includes northern Ohio, Michigan, northern Wisconsin, and parts of Indiana and Illinois. D05 also includes three terrestrial sites and one additional aquatic site.","citation":null,"relatedIdentifiers":null,"status":{"label":"Operational","uri":"http:\/\/vocabs.lter-europe.net\/elter_cl\/10772"},"yearEstablished":2015,"yearClosed":null,"relatedSites":null,"siteName":"Crampton Lake NEON","shortName":"CRAM","siteType":"Platform","protectionLevel":null,"landUse":null,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/deims.org\/sites\/default\/files\/2020-06\/snow.jpg","alt":"Snow at Crampton Lake"},{"url":"https:\/\/deims.org\/sites\/default\/files\/2020-06\/buoy.jpg","alt":"Buoy"}]},"environmentalCharacteristics":{"airTemperature":{"yearlyAverage":4.3,"monthlyAverage":null,"unit":"\u00b0C","referencePeriod":null},"precipitation":{"yearlyAverage":794,"monthlyAverage":null,"unit":"mm","referencePeriod":null},"biogeographicalRegion":null,"biome":"freshwater_lakes","ecosystemType":[{"label":"Fresh Water Lakes","uri":null},{"label":"Lakes","uri":null}],"eunisHabitat":null,"landforms":null,"geoBonBiome":["Fresh water lakes"],"geology":"The geology of Crampton is closely correlated with glaciation largely from the Laurentide Ice Sheet dating back 18,000 years. The bedrock materials that make up the geological formations of this site are migmatite, amphibolite and quartzofeldspathic gneiss [8]. Additionally, Crampton Lake is part of the White Mountain Plutonic-Volcanic Succession.","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.\r\n\r\nCrampton 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.","soils":"The soils surrounding Crampton Lake are loamy, sandy and well-drained with moderate permeability rates. The taxonomic soil class for most of the site is Alfic Oxyaquic Fragiorthods. The official soil series that classifies the soils surrounding CRAM is known as the Gogebic Soil Series, named after Gogebic County, Michigan, which is due north of the CRAM site. The soils are sandy outwashes resulting from intense historic glaciation of this entire region. Soils at Crampton Lake have diminished capacity for cation exchange, which leads to acidification and, in turn, to the development of peat bogs, a characteristic feature surrounding the site.","vegetation":"The Crampton Lake site is a part of the Northern Mesic Forest Ecosystem. It is considered a woody wetland, containing bogs, and sits within mixed deciduous\/coniferous forests. Dominant vegetation types that surround the shores of CRAM include sugar maple (Acer saccharum), red maple (Acer rubrum), American beech (Fagus grandifolia), eastern hemlock (Tsuga canadensis), paper birch (Betula papyrifera), aspen (populus tremuloides), and balsam fir (Abies balsamea)."},"geographic":{"boundaries":null,"coordinates":"POINT (-89.47825 46.21111)","country":["United States of America"],"elevation":{"avg":509,"min":501,"max":538,"unit":"msl"},"size":{"value":100,"unit":"ha"},"relatedLocations":null},"focusDesignScale":{"experiments":{"design":"mainly experimentation","scale":"catchment scale"},"observations":{"design":"mainly observation","scale":"entire catchment"},"observedProperties":[{"label":"DNA sequence","uri":"http:\/\/vocabs.lter-europe.net\/EnvThes\/21400"},{"label":"genetic parameter","uri":"http:\/\/vocabs.lter-europe.net\/EnvThes\/20942"},{"label":"land cover","uri":"http:\/\/vocabs.lter-europe.net\/EnvThes\/22142"},{"label":"landscape parameter","uri":"http:\/\/vocabs.lter-europe.net\/EnvThes\/20943"},{"label":"water parameter","uri":"http:\/\/vocabs.lter-europe.net\/EnvThes\/20945"},{"label":"water quality","uri":"http:\/\/vocabs.lter-europe.net\/EnvThes\/22312"}]},"infrastructure":{"accessibleAllYear":true,"accessType":null,"allPartsAccessible":null,"maintenanceInterval":null,"permanentPowerSupply":true,"operation":{"permanent":true,"notes":null,"siteVisitInterval":null},"notes":null,"collection":null,"data":{"policy":{"url":null,"rights":null,"notes":null}}},"relatedResources":null,"projectRelated":{"lter":{"lterSiteClassification":null}}}}