Field Notes

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Vaira: 2017-12-06 09:30:00 (DOY 340)
Author: Joe Verfaillie
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Summary: Field trip to Fiddletown, collected/cleared FD chamber data, calibrated East co2 profile, swapped LI-GHG USb stick, fixed 4cm TC on North soil co2 profile

Vaira
2017-12-06

There was frost on the grass in protected places along the road to Vaira. I met Jim Vaira at the Vaira gate at about 9:30. We then went to another ranch they own near Fiddletown to put in staff gauges at a pond. In conversation Jim said that the cattle ranchers move cows around all the time depending on grass. At Vaira there are usually 40 to 60 cows on the land except for a period during mid dry season.

I returned to Vaira at about 12:30. It was cool, sunny with a little breeze. The grass is still growing and the soil is still damp, but no rain in the forecast for the next couple of weeks.

I calibrated the East profile of soil CO2 probes. I used some zero air to bring the chamber down close to zero CO2 at the end. While the calibration was running I fixed TC#2 to the North profile -4cm location. I cut chewed sections off both ends and remade the TC. I tried sticking it inside the tube with the probe, but there is not enough room between the probe and the tube. So I pushed it back into the ground on the north side of the tube. Iâ€™m not sure these temperatures are the best to use to correct the probe measurements in that the probes are probably much warmer inside the tubes.

I collected the data from the FD chambers then cleared their memories and cycled their power.

I swapped the USB stick on the 7500 to check on the large changes we saw in the H2O when swapping the heads last week.

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