Field Notes

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Other sites visited today: East End | West Pond | Mayberry | Twitchell Rice

Twitchell Alfalfa: 2015-08-06 10:30:00 (DOY 218)
Author: Joe Verfaillie
Others: Dennis, Sara, et fam

Summary: Field has been baled - bales just getting picked up, Forerunner wiring might be a problem.

Alfalfa
2015-08-06

I arrived about 10:30 with Dennis, Sara and family. The field has been baled and the bales are still on the field. They were just beginning to pick up the bales on the field to the east. There seemed to be some ground squirrel activity, but not impacting the tower yet.

Sara took care of the tower.
The 7500 read: 391.3ppm CO2, 781mmol/m3 H2O, 95.2SS, 26.92C, 101.1kPa

Dennis did the soil respiration measurements. The 6400 needs to be calibrated and the desiccant should be changed.

Kyoko and kids did the veg height. Sara did spectral measurements.

I checked on the Forerunner probes. They are all wired gray, blue and purple. The second two should probably be purple, gray, blue. The 2cm probe is sn GP20140009 and the 8cm probe is sn GP2013ex03. I will check the data before I start swapping wires.

Veg Height (cm): Tape measure from ground to top of plant
25, 24, 25, 23.5, 31, 23, 26, 23, 32, 32, 25, 27, 16, 28, 29, 42, 29, 28, 32, avg = 27.4, stdev = 5.32

3 photos found

Picking up bales
TA_autocam_20150807_1245.jpg ( 2015-08-07 12:45:02 ) Full size: 1920x1440
Picking up bales

Nice sunset
TA_autocam_20150806_1915.jpg ( 2015-08-06 19:15:02 ) Full size: 1920x1440
Nice sunset

Sara, Dennis, Joe, Hisashi, Kyoko on site
TA_autocam_20150806_0945.jpg ( 2015-08-06 09:45:02 ) Full size: 1920x1440
Sara, Dennis, Joe, Hisashi, Kyoko on site

Graphs display:
7 sets found

Can't check TA_met
11 TA_met graphs found

Alfalfa Temperatures

Alfalfa Soil Heat Flux

Alfalfa Soil Moisture

Alfalfa Soil Temperatures Set A

Alfalfa Soil Temperatures Set B

Alfalfa Soil Temperatures Set C

NDVI Narrow Band Radiation

Soil CO2 Flux

Relative Humidity and BattV

SRS NDVI and PRI

PRI Narrow Band Channels

Can't check TA_rad
3 TA_rad graphs found

Alfalfa Radiation

Alfalfa LED NDVI Sensor

Alfalfa PAR

Can't check TA_flux
5 TA_flux graphs found

Alfalfa Sonic Wind

Alfalfa CO2 and H2O

Alfalfa Methane

Alfalfa Pressure

Alfalfa Flux Data Counts

Can't check TA_soilco2
7 TA_soilco2 graphs found

Set A Soil CO2

Set B Soil CO2

Soil CO2 Soil Moisture

Forced Diffusion CO2

Alfalfa Forerunner Soil CO2

Alfalfa Forerunner Temperatures

Alfalfa Forerunner Probe RH

No data found for TA_arable.
1 TA_cam graphs found

GCC

Can't check TATWBABCSB_cam