Bondville Environmental and Atmospheric Research Site (BEARS)

BEARS Projects

For almost three decades, the Illinois State Water Survey has continuously monitored the rural atmosphere in Champaign County, Illinois. Many research projects are currently operating here, and include monitoring of:

• basic air quality
              (sulfur dioxide, ozone, particulate, organics)
• precipitation chemistry
              (major ions and cations, mercury, event
                based longer term)
• long-term climate
              (a long term National Weather Service site)
• on-site meteorology
              (wind velocity, air and soil temperatures, dew points, pressure, radiation, etc.)
• atmospheric visibility
• solar physics
• continuous particulate monitoring using chromatographic methods

The Bondville Environmental and Atmospheric Research Site (BEARS) site is available for use by all researchers, as a service through the State of Illinois and the University of Illinois-Champaign Urbana.

For further information about data availability, or the use of the Bondville site for a research project, please contact:

Mike Caughey
Illinois State Water Survey
2204 Griffith Drive
Champaign, IL 61820-7463
217.333.1611
mcaughey@uiuc.edu