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Field Notes

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Other sites visited today: Mayberry | Twitchell Alfalfa | West Pond | Sherman Wetland | Bouldin Alfalfa | Bouldin Corn

East End: 2017-06-23 10:00:00 (DOY 174)
Author: Joe Verfaillie
Others: Kyle, Sam, Dennis

Summary: Set up TempTower3 - boardwalk. Replaced thermocouples with floating jellyfish thermocouples at TempTower1 - Open Water. No images at Permanent Tower

East End
2017-06-23

I arrived about 10am with Sam, Kyle and Dennis. It was clear, sunny and hot but breezy. We installed the third temporary tower at the end of the first boardwalk south of the permanent tower.


Temporary Tower 1 – Open Water:
Kyle went on a rogue trip to the open water met station to replace the stick-bound thermocouples with the 'jellyfish' thermocouples, to better capture the near-surface water as the WT moves. Measuring at 0, 15, 30, 50, and 100 cm from the surface of the water.


Temporary Tower 3 – Boardwalk:
We bolted a Campbell tripod to the railing at the end of the boardwalk. The center post was a little too high and we cut about 18in off of it to bring the eddy sensors within reach when standing on top of the 8ft step ladder. There is an open channel at the end of the boardwalk but relatively thick vegetation beyond and back along the boardwalk. The solar panels went across the railings back about 20 feet from the tower. The met sensors between the solar panels and the tower – this allowed the met sensors to be installed in and over thick vegetation that should be more representative of the footprint than the open water at the end of the boardwalk. The Rnet and PAR went on a temporary, 2x2 wooden post over the vegetation to the south of the boardwalk and the ground sensors went in north of the boardwalk to prevent trampling the vegetation under the radiation sensors. This tower is using an older LI7500, a newer Gill WM, borrowing a 7700 from Bouldin and recording at 10Hz on a CR1000. Thermocouples were wire to ports 1-10 in two sets of five at -5, 0, 15, 25, 35, -5, 0, 15, 25, and 35 cm from the surface (negative being soil and positive being water). The water level sensors was hung from the boardwalk 111cm from the boardwalk to the sensor head and 128cm from the boardwalk to the sediment. It was reading 0.3psi. The base of the sonic is 3.4m above the boardwalk and 19cm center-to-center from the 7500.

Full equipment list:
CR1000 flux sn 23865 wp 20447
CR1000 met sn 50889 wp 50815? 50615?
NL115 sn 6761
AM16/32 sn 1238
SHF#1 sn 00245 61.5uV/(W/m2)
SHF#2 sn 000137 60.0 uV(W/m2)
Water pressure sn 20010046
HMP60 sn L1740420
PAR sn 050596
NR-Lite sn 041556
Sonic: sn 120907
7500: sn 0976
7700: sn TG1-0424
miniDot sn 1219
Hobo salinity sn 11020258
Solar panel sn 11ZV0M0836
Solar panel sn 11ZV0M0855
Solar controller sn 3317052234210


Permanent Tower:

About 2pm we collected the data from the Permanent tower.
The 7500 read: 416ppm CO2, 812mmol/m3 H2O, 30.3C, 100.9kPa, 92.9SS – 93.9 after cleaning
The 7700 read: 1.94ppm CH4, 40RSSI – 88.3 after cleaning
There were lots of spider webs on the eddy sensors. Sam cleaned the radiation sensors.

There was no camera images. The CR1000 was no longer on the network. I tried everything I could think of but could not connect to the CR1000 over the Ethernet. Need to test it more next week – new cable, new interface.

0 photos found

Graphs display:
11 sets found

14 EE_met graphs found

Temperature and Batt V

Soil Moisture and Well Pressure

Solar Radiation

PAR

Soil Heat Flux

Water Level and Rain

Soil/Water Temperature Set 1

Soil/Water Temperature Set 2

Soil/Water Temperature Set 3

Dissolved Oxygen and Wind Speed

SRS NDVI Channels

Apogee NDVI

NDVI

Undercanopy PAR

Can't check EE_mixed
1 EE_mixed graphs found

Air Pressure and RH

8 EE_flux graphs found

Wind Speeds

LI7500 CO2 and H2O

LI7700 CH4 and RSSI

Flux Counts

Instument Temperatures

Temp Tower 3 (Mixed Veg)

Temp Tower 3 (Mixed Veg)

Temp Tower 3 (Mixed Veg)

Can't check MBWPEESWGT_mixed
No data found for EE_cam.
Can't check MBEEWPSWEPGT_cam
Can't check SIMBTWEE_met
Can't check EE_Temp
5 EE_Temp graphs found

Sonic SOS

LI7500 CO2

Water Level

LI-7700 CH4

Wind Speed

Can't check EE_minidot
1 EE_minidot graphs found

EE miniDOT Dissolved Oxygen

Can't check MBSWEEWPBCBA
1 EE_processed graphs found

CO2 Fluxes

 
 

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This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation and US Department of Energy. Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in the material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the supporters.