Prairie Pothole NEON - United States of America

The Prairie Pothole (PRPO) is core aquatic site and part of NEON's Northern Plains Domain 7. PRPO is colocated with Woodworth (WOOD) core terrestrial field site. Located 100 miles northeast of Bismarck, North Dakota in Stuntsman County. It is managed by the U.S. Geological Survey and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and is part of the larger Chase Lake National Wildlife Refuge (NWR) PRPO is a small "terminal wetland" lake, collecting water from surrounding areas without any streams carrying water out. Remote sensing surveys of this site collect lidar, spectrometer and high resolution RGB camera data. This site has one meteorological station located in the riparian area and one meteorological station above water on a buoy. The ...