Library Resources:

• Library Portal
• Mountain Lake Publication Database
  

Meteorological Data - Current and Archives:

• MLBS Weather Station Data Collected and Maintained at MLBS (1994 - present)
  
  
• NCDC / NOAA Data Collected at MLBS (1971 - 1997)
  • Full Data Inventory
  • HTML Formatted Report
  • Comma Delimited ASCII (see the HTML formatted report for units and notes, i.e. as much metadata as NCDC provides)
  • Do your own search of NCDC database
    NOTE: At this page you must search for exactly "Mt Lake Biol Station". For data downloads click on "DATA" and then "Digital ASCII Files".
    Downloads to .EDU sites are free. For others there is a fee.
    
    
• NOAA Automated Flood Warning System Data
  • Recent Local Rainfall
    NOTE: Gauge Name "Mtn Lake Bio Sta" ID # 1008 is located at MLBS. Gauge Name "Mountain Lake" ID # 1012 is located at the "Old Golf Course" on Mountain Lake Hotel Property.
  • Rainfall Data, real-time and archived.
    
    
• National Atmospheric Deposition Program
  • NADP/NTN Monitoring Location VA13 - Horton Station
    
    
• NOAA/NWS - Local (Pembroke) Weather Conditions and Forecast

• NOAA/NWS - National Hurricane Center
  
  
• Current Weather Conditions (Virginia Tech Airport - NOAA/NWS)
  
  
• Other Regional Weather Data and Forecast Sites
  
  
• Other Regional Weather Data and Forecast Sites:
  • National Weather Service (NOAA) weather forecast and synopsis for Giles County (U. Kentucky Agricultural Weather Center)
  • NOAA Paleoclimatology Program - includes tree-ring data taken from Mountain Lake.
  • NOAA - National Hurricane Center
  • National Weather Service (NOAA) home page.
  • National Weather Service (NOAA)- Blacksburg page
    
  
  
  

Maps and GIS (underconstruction):

• Maps
  
  
  
  Other On-line Data Bases (MLBS and non-MLBS maintained):
  

MLBS Biological Collections

MLBS Geographic Information System (GIS) of region surrounding MLBS TerrFly online aerial photo data base (USGS)

MLBS Field Species Lists

Please contact the webmaster with any questions or problems with the data sets.

1.  When you download data: Please send or email the MLBS Associate Director your name and contact information, and a short notice stating your reasons for acquiring data and a description of your analysis and publication intent.
2.  Prior to Publication Submission: Individuals and institutions utilizing data from the MLBS database are requested to place the following acknowledgment in any publication, report, or electronic communication, in which these data are mentioned: "Data sets were provided by Mountain Lake Biological Station, University of Virginia."
3.  After Publication: Please send two copies of the paper, report, or article to:  Associate Director, University of Virginia, Mountain Lake Biological Station, P.O. Box 400327, Charlottesville VA 22904-4327, enagy@virginia.edu.