Field Notes
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Vaira: 2016-10-20 10:00:00 (DOY 294)
Author: Joe Verfaillie
Others: Dennis, Sam
Summary: Met Vairas about the pond monitoring, installed compute stick and cell modem, cut grass, set up radiometer test, new grass beginning to sprout.
| Vaira 2016-10-20 I arrived at 10:00 with Dennis and Sam. We meet the Vairas, Dale, Jim and Karen at our site. We showed them the site then followed them to the pond northeast of our site. The pond is about 22 feet deep and can hold about 24 acre-feet of water. They need to report their water diversion to the state and we will help by measuring the water depth. There are also some road cuts near the dam that show the underlying shale. We returned to our site about 11am. It was clear sunny and warm with a nice, cool breeze. There was about 95mm of rain last Friday through Sunday. The surface is dry again and there were no puddles in the road, but there was water in the water hole. The grass and herbs have sprouted and some of the grass is already a couple of cm high. The old dead tree to the west of the site largely collapsed in the last storm. I installed the compute stick and cell modem in the computer box, and removed the Raspberry Pi. All the connections seemed to work and I tested the auto send successfully. And it seems to have sent on its own later in the day. The new equipment is just kind of stacked in the box. It needs to be straightened out and mounted more permanently. Sam set up the radiometer test tripod that we brought from Twitchell Rice. This system consists of: CR6 sn 1238 AM16/32 sn 2113 Hukseflux NR01 sn 1720 – old, scratched SW domes Hukseflux NR01 sn 2420 – New K&Z PAR sn 140457 - New Dennis used his battery powered weed eater to cut a swath inside and outside the fence. We turned on the fence charger when we left. Dennis tested AirT and RH with a sling pyschrometer Pyschrometer: Tdry 23 C, Twet 15 C – calculated RH = 41.6% Data logger: Tair 22.3 C, RH 42.96% |
Field Data
No tank data
No VR Well data found
No TZ Moisture Point data found
No VR Moisture Point data found
No TZ grass heigth found
No VR grass heigth found
No VR Tree DBH found
No water potential data found
No VR Grass Biomass data found
No VR OakLeaves Biomass data found
No VR PineNeedles Biomass data found
5 photos found
20161020VR_WaterHole.jpg ( 2016-10-20 13:01:48 ) Full size: 1920x1440
Watering hole at Vaira surrounded by dry brown grass
20161020VR_Pond.jpg ( 2016-10-20 11:49:46 ) Full size: 1920x1440
Large pond northeast of our site. The pond is about 22 feet deep and can hold about 24 acre-feet of water. They need to report their water diversion to the state and we will help by measuring the water depth.
20161020VR_DeadTreeFell.jpg ( 2016-10-20 12:57:13 ) Full size: 1920x1440
The old dead tree to the west of the site largely collapsed in the last storm.
20161020VR_ViewFromPond.jpg ( 2016-10-20 12:08:55 ) Full size: 1920x1440
View from large pond northeast of our tower site. Looking downhill, we see oak savanna with green oak trees and short, brown grass on slightly rolling hills.
vaira_2016_10_20_113102.jpg ( 2016-10-20 10:29:00 ) Full size: 1296x960
Joe on site
9 sets found
16 VR_met graphs found
2 VR_flux graphs found
6 VR_soilco2 graphs found
No data found for VR_pond.
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