ASRC Whiteface Mountain Field Station

10/15/2026

We are looking for more volunteer scientists to participate in Snapshot NY - a collaborative wildlife monitoring project - specifically in the Adirondack, Tug Hill, and Catskill regions! As you can see, we have some gaps in these areas where grid cells are not selected.

We have a subset of trail cameras available to loan set aside specifically for these areas! If you have a seasonal cabin in one of these regions, have friends or family, or know of anyone who might want to participate - please spread the word! If you are interested, please check out our website for more information! www.snapshotny.org This is a screenshot of our grid map showing the areas in the green rectangles where we need more participation. You can find the live map on our homepage that shows which grid cells are selected (red) and which ones are available (clear). If your grid cell is taken, you can still click on it to be placed on our waitlist.

10/15/2026

Beautiful day in the neighborhood!

10/06/2026

First rime ice of the season!

09/30/2026

Beautiful morning at the summit!

09/23/2026

Colors are starting to pop!

09/16/2026

New website feature just dropped!

Ever wondered what surrounds your local weather station at 100 m, 1 km, or 5 km? Now you can explore it with NLCD land cover classifications! Scroll to the bottom of your station’s page to see the surrounding land cover at each radius.

https://www.nysmesonet.org/about/sites =nysm&stid=oweg

09/11/2026

09/03/2026

Join us for a multidisciplinary look at AI and Data Centers in the rural North Country on September 16, 2026 at The Hyde Collection museum in Glens Falls. We'll have speakers, panel discussions and group conversations with all participants to explore these evolving technologies from all sides. For program info and to register, visit: https://www.adkresearch.org/events

08/28/2026

💨 On April 12, 1934, four men in a wooden shack chained to a mountaintop in New Hampshire measured a wind gust of 231 miles per hour and genuinely expected the building to leave.

The crew at the Mount Washington Observatory had set up in the old Stage Office on the summit, a low wooden structure held down with heavy iron chains bolted into the rock. The gusts climbed all morning. Observer Sal Pagliuca, radio man Alexander McKenzie and the others took turns going outside to knock rime ice off the anemometer, which is roughly as unpleasant as it sounds. When the needle hit 231, Pagliuca wrote in the log, will they believe it?

They did. The instrument was later hauled to the National Weather Bureau in Washington and tested, and the reading held. It stood as the fastest surface wind ever recorded on earth until 1996, when an unmanned station on Barrow Island in Australia logged 253 during a cyclone. Mount Washington still holds the record for the highest surface wind ever observed directly by human beings, which is a different and arguably better distinction. ❄️

What is the worst wind you have ever been out in here, and where were you when it hit?

08/18/2026

Please join us tonight for the final lecture in our Summer Falconer series! Rebecca Duell and Tyler Danzig from the NWS Burlington office will be presenting an Introduction to the National Weather Service and outlook for the Fall/ Winter 2026 season.