Field Notes

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Tonzi: 2019-03-11 11:30:00 (DOY 70)
Author: Joe Verfaillie
Others: Siyan, Ana

Summary: Regular fieldwork, green and wet, SMAP crew left wheel tracks, added new computer and radios, cleaned acorns out of JPL boxes, evidence of wild pigs, Ana made distance measurements from FLIR

Tonzi
2019-03-11

I arrived at about 11:30 with Ana and Siyan. The road was wet and muddy with lots of wheel tracks from the SMAP crew coming and going over the last few days. They also left several tacks off the edge of the road where is passes the Tower. One tree near Irish Hill Rd and the one near Mr Tonziâ€™s house had some leaves. The pond is full and the ground is soggy. I saw places where algae maybe grew in a puddle but was now on the wet ground.

I lowered the computer box a little on the tower and put in a new box above it. The new box has a LattePanda with a touch screen. The new computer has a battery to keep its clock running on power out and should restart itself every Monday at 8:15. It powered up and connect to the FLIR and the Tower top CR1000 over Ethernet. I put a radio (sn 34362) in the box and connected to OSU-SP2 CR1000. I downloaded all the data from SP2 over the radio link and left it set up to grab new data every 5min. I put a radio (sn 35754) in the SP3 box and was able to connect to it too. I tried to download just the 30min data from it but only got the last two days. So far it looks okay but still needs some set up work.

I collected the Tower and Floor eddy data. Ana took some measurements to get distances for the FLIR field of view. She also collected data from the cal panels and the IRT system. Siyan collected the rest of the data, did the regular fieldwork and serviced the z-cams.

I cleaned several hundred acorns out of the JPL spectrometer boxes and stuffed some foam in the holes.

I left the solar charger controller box open but got lucky and Ruzbeh from SMAP was there later in the day and closed it for me.

There was some disturbed ground around the base of some trees to the southeast of the tower past the DBH trees C7 and C8. I think it was possibly wild pigs.

I forgot the tags from the DBH trees.

Field Data

No tank data

Well Depth

Date	Location	Depth (feet)
2019-03-11	VR_well	49.7
2019-03-11	TZ_floor	18.4
2019-03-11	TZ_tower	21.2
2019-03-11	TZ_road	25.6
2019-03-11	VR_pond	22.38

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

0000

Date	DOY	Rep	Depth	Tower_1	Floor_South_1	Floor_West_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_West_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_West_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_West_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
2019-03-11	70	0	nan	41.7	36.8	43.7	35.5	25.8	28.2	32.6	39.3	38.2	37	42.9	45.1	36.5	39.5	33.2	34.1	31.6	31.6	24	34.4	37.7	44.6	42.1	40.2	34.1	36.6	36.6	37.4	41	39.9	43	55.4	46.3	36.2	45.6	49.4	40.3	46.8	51.4	43.8
2019-03-11	70	1	nan	42.6	35.8	41.4	37	26.4	27.3	32.3	32	37.3	36.4	42.6	45.1	36.2	42.3	32.4	33.5	31.6	31.3	29.8	32.9	37.4	43	40.7	42.4	33.5	36	36.3	37.4	42.4	38.6	42	54.6	44.8	45.4	46	48.3	40.8	47.4	52.8	50.6
2019-03-11	70	Avg	0-15cm																																									0
2019-03-11	70	Avg	15-30cm																																									0
2019-03-11	70	Avg	30-45cm																																									0
2019-03-11	70	Avg	45-60cm																																									0

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

0000

Date	DOY	Rep	Depth	Solar_Panels_1	Flux_Tower_1	Biomass_Cage_1	Solar_Panels_2	Flux_Tower_2	Biomass_Cage_2	Solar_Panels_3	Flux_Tower_3	Biomass_Cage_3	Solar_Panels_4	Flux_Tower_4	Biomass_Cage_4	Spacial Count
2019-03-11	70	0	nan	39.9	25	22.9	27.1	31.9	22.2	31.8	23.5	32.9	42	27.9	33.7
2019-03-11	70	1	nan	32.3	25	22.9	27.4	30.7	22.5	31.5	21.8	32.7	42.5	26.5	34
2019-03-11	70	Avg	0-15cm													0
2019-03-11	70	Avg	15-30cm													0
2019-03-11	70	Avg	30-45cm													0
2019-03-11	70	Avg	45-60cm													0

No TZ grass heigth found

No VR grass heigth found

Tree DBH

Date	Tag#	Reading (mm)
2019-03-11	1	13.4
2019-03-11	102	18.8
2019-03-11	2	12.3
2019-03-11	245	10.0
2019-03-11	3	13.1
2019-03-11	4	4.9
2019-03-11	5	12.0
2019-03-11	7	9.9
2019-03-11	72	18.9
2019-03-11	79	15.7
2019-03-11	8	7.8