A high-tech weather buoy costing hundreds of thousands of dollars has been deployed in Lake Champlain.
The high-tech lake profiler was just launched by the Lake Champlain Research Institute on the SUNY Plattsburgh campus. It is the second floating weather station operated by the institute on the lake. The first buoy is south of Valcour Island and the new unit, installed last week, is just off Cumberland Head. The data buoy transfers the information hourly to a computer on the SUNY Plattsburgh campus. At three-quarters of a million dollars, it’s an expensive investment, says Dr. Timothy Mihuc, the Institute director, but he said they’ve already retrieved important data.
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