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Trusted by researchers
on six continents.

From alpine caves in Fiordland to cenotes in the Yucatán, SYP samplers are collecting precisely timestamped water samples in caves, springs, streams and remote catchments — unattended, year-round, in some of the most demanding field environments on earth.

25+
Field sites
11+
Institutions
6
Continents
2025
Science Advances
Global reach

Deployed worldwide.

Every marker is a live or completed SYP deployment. Tap a site to see who is running it. Cave and karst sites in blue; river and surface-water sites in green.

From Waikato to the world
Who runs SYP

The institutions behind the markers.

University of Cambridge
Cave · Yucatán, Mexico
UC Davis
Cave · Sierra Nevada, USA
Vanderbilt University
Cave · Curaçao · California · Wyoming
Northumbria University
Cave · Peak District, UK · Sumatra
University of Tübingen
Cave · Niue, South Pacific
University of Waikato
Cave · Waitomo · Fiordland · Wairoa, NZ
Université de Rouen
Cave · Normandy, France
Cornell College
Cave · Cape Range, Australia
Union College
Cave · Portugal
University of Basel
Cave · Switzerland
Lincoln Agritech
River · Waikato River, NZ
…and growing
New sites added every season

Running an SYP at your site and not on the map yet? Let us know — we'd love to add you.

Built for publishable data.

"Classic Maya response to multiyear seasonal droughts"
James et al. 2025 · Science Advances · doi:10.1126/sciadv.adw7661

SYP samplers are cited in the methods — collecting the modern cave drip-water time series that anchors the paleoclimate record. When your sampler ends up in the supplementary materials, it has earned its keep.

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