Field Notes

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Tonzi: 2015-12-02 11:00:00 (DOY 336)
Author: Joe Verfaillie
Others: Siyan

Summary: Soldered z-cam 2 splice, Floor losing power at night, tram stopped - reset, Tower computer okay.

Tonzi
2015-12-02

I arrive about 11:00 with Siyan. It was cold and partly cloudy with a variable breeze. The ground surface is dry probably not getting much rain since last visit. The grass seems greener here than at Vaira, but not much recent growth â€“ too cold. The remaining leaves on the trees have yellowed.

I soldered, heat shrinked and sealed the splice in the z-cam #2 cable. I serviced all the z-cams. No leaks in the widows since last time but I still need to fix z-cam #1 from sure and maybe #3 as well.

The tower computer seemed to be running well.

The tram had stopped, not derailed, near its parking spot. I reset it and it went to park just fine.

The Floor tower has begun to lose power and data at night. It is pulling 2.2A, 1A of that is probably the computer. If I rearrange things to move the Floor met 10x sensors to the soil moisture 23X we can probably turn the computer off and only run it during the day when we visit to collect data.

I lowered the Tower sonic and 7500 to fix the bird spikes on the sonic that had been knocked sideways.

The radiometers were clean.

We took a bunch of photos with the new Ricoh Theta S camera that takes 360x180 degree panoramas. These should be posted soon in a Google Street View like form.

Field Data

No tank data

Well Depth

Date	Location	Depth (feet)
2015-12-02	TZ_floor	32
2015-12-02	TZ_road	39.8
2015-12-02	TZ_tower	36.6

mode = both
Moisture Point Probes TZ
Array ( [0] => Tower_1 [1] => Floor_South_1 [2] => Floor_East_1 [3] => Floor_West_1 [4] => SoilCO2_1 [5] => Soil_Transect_4_1 [6] => Soil_Transect_3_1 [7] => Soil_Transect_2_1 [8] => Soil_Transect_1_1 [9] => SoilCO2_West_A_1 [10] => SoilCO2_West_B_1 [11] => SoilCO2_West_C_1 [12] => Tower_2 [13] => Floor_South_2 [14] => Floor_East_2 [15] => Floor_West_2 [16] => SoilCO2_2 [17] => Soil_Transect_4_2 [18] => Soil_Transect_3_2 [19] => Soil_Transect_2_2 [20] => Soil_Transect_1_2 [21] => SoilCO2_West_A_2 [22] => SoilCO2_West_B_2 [23] => SoilCO2_West_C_2 [24] => Tower_3 [25] => Floor_South_3 [26] => Floor_East_3 [27] => Floor_West_3 [28] => SoilCO2_3 [29] => Soil_Transect_4_3 [30] => Soil_Transect_3_3 [31] => Soil_Transect_2_3 [32] => Soil_Transect_1_3 [33] => SoilCO2_West_A_3 [34] => SoilCO2_West_B_3 [35] => SoilCO2_West_C_3 [36] => Tower_4 [37] => Floor_South_4 [38] => Floor_East_4 [39] => Floor_West_4 [40] => SoilCO2_4 [41] => Soil_Transect_4_4 [42] => Soil_Transect_3_4 [43] => Soil_Transect_2_4 [44] => Soil_Transect_1_4 [45] => SoilCO2_West_A_4 [46] => SoilCO2_West_B_4 [47] => SoilCO2_West_C_4 )

0000

Date	DOY	Rep	Depth	Tower_1	Floor_South_1	Floor_East_1	Floor_West_1	SoilCO2_1	Soil_Transect_4_1	Soil_Transect_3_1	Soil_Transect_2_1	Soil_Transect_1_1	SoilCO2_West_A_1	SoilCO2_West_B_1	SoilCO2_West_C_1	Tower_2	Floor_South_2	Floor_East_2	Floor_West_2	SoilCO2_2	Soil_Transect_4_2	Soil_Transect_3_2	Soil_Transect_2_2	Soil_Transect_1_2	SoilCO2_West_A_2	SoilCO2_West_B_2	SoilCO2_West_C_2	Tower_3	Floor_South_3	Floor_East_3	Floor_West_3	SoilCO2_3	Soil_Transect_4_3	Soil_Transect_3_3	Soil_Transect_2_3	Soil_Transect_1_3	SoilCO2_West_A_3	SoilCO2_West_B_3	SoilCO2_West_C_3	Tower_4	Floor_South_4	Floor_East_4	Floor_West_4	SoilCO2_4	Soil_Transect_4_4	Soil_Transect_3_4	Soil_Transect_2_4	Soil_Transect_1_4	SoilCO2_West_A_4	SoilCO2_West_B_4	SoilCO2_West_C_4	Spacial Count
2015-12-02	336	0	nan	8.8	12.7	21.2	17.6	13.4	10.6	9.1	9.1	10.6	16.2	16.5	9.4	11.2	6.6	18.2	8.7	13	12.1	21.9	13.9	3.2	27.1	6	15.2	14.3	4.8	10.3	3.9	3.9	8.7	10.6	14.5	12	21.8	14	12.6	9.9	4.4	21.6	8.7	17	9.9	15.9	18.5	10.2	13	11	15.6
2015-12-02	336	1	nan	9.1	12.7	23.2	18.5	11.1	10	10	9.1	10.3		15.9	10.3	11.2	6.6	19.4	9	13.9	11.8	21.6	13.9	4.2		6	14.8	14.8	5	11.7	3.7	5.3	8.4	10.9	14.8	12.6		14.8	12.9	8.5	3.6	21.1	7.9	16.2	9.9	13.9	18.5	10.7		10.1	15.6
2015-12-02	336	Avg	0-15cm																																																	0
2015-12-02	336	Avg	15-30cm																																																	0
2015-12-02	336	Avg	30-45cm																																																	0
2015-12-02	336	Avg	45-60cm																																																	0

mode = both
Moisture Point Probes VR
Array ( [0] => Solar_Panels_1 [1] => Flux_Tower_1 [2] => Gate_1 [3] => Biomass_Cage_1 [4] => Solar_Panels_2 [5] => Flux_Tower_2 [6] => Gate_2 [7] => Biomass_Cage_2 [8] => Solar_Panels_3 [9] => Flux_Tower_3 [10] => Gate_3 [11] => Biomass_Cage_3 [12] => Solar_Panels_4 [13] => Flux_Tower_4 [14] => Gate_4 [15] => Biomass_Cage_4 )

0000

Date	DOY	Rep	Depth	Solar_Panels_1	Flux_Tower_1	Gate_1	Biomass_Cage_1	Solar_Panels_2	Flux_Tower_2	Gate_2	Biomass_Cage_2	Solar_Panels_3	Flux_Tower_3	Gate_3	Biomass_Cage_3	Solar_Panels_4	Flux_Tower_4	Gate_4	Biomass_Cage_4	Spacial Count
2015-12-02	336	0	nan	0.9	12.4	11.8	4.5	18.2	16.4	10.9	10.6	17.6	7.6	12	16.2	26.8	14.2	10.1	14.2
2015-12-02	336	1	nan	3.3	12.1	10.6	4.7	18.2	26.4	10.6	10	17.9	7	11.7	15.4	26.8	13	10.5	13.9
2015-12-02	336	Avg	0-15cm																	0
2015-12-02	336	Avg	15-30cm																	0
2015-12-02	336	Avg	30-45cm																	0
2015-12-02	336	Avg	45-60cm																	0

No TZ grass heigth found

No VR grass heigth found

Tree DBH

Date	Tag#	Reading (mm)
2015-12-02	1	17.5
2015-12-02	102	12.1
2015-12-02	2	15.0
2015-12-02	245	21.0
2015-12-02	3	16.2
2015-12-02	4	11.5
2015-12-02	5	15.5
2015-12-02	7	12.0
2015-12-02	72	21.3
2015-12-02	79	18.9
2015-12-02	8	16.0