Field Notes

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Tonzi: 2021-04-18 11:00:00 (DOY 108)
Author: Joe Verfaillie
Others: Hisashi, Kyoko

Summary: Floor well cable chewed and I could not get it working, grass IRT still not working, cows kicked the road well box some more, zcam 3 got moved a bit.

Tonzi
2021-04-18

Hisashi, Kyoko and I arrived at about 11:00 PDT. It was clear, sunny and warm with a nice breeze from the southwest. No rain for the last month. The pond is less than half full, the ground is dry and almost crunchy. The trees are fully leafed out. The grass is short, sparse and going to seed.

Kyoko and Hisashi did the soil moisture and well measurements.

I collected all the data, FDs and read the dendrometers. The IRT CR1000 had to be reset to send data (as usual). Everything else looked okay. CO2 was very high and H2O was very low:
The Tower 7500 read: 413.9ppm CO2, 233.0mmol/m3 H2O, 26.1C, 99.3kPa, 100.4SS
The Floor 7500 read: 422.0ppm CO2, 185.6mmol/m3 H2O, 25.1C, 99.5kPa, 101.8SS

I tried to reinstall the grass IRT again â€“ target temp is bad. As far as I can tell all the wiring is okay and the sensor was reporting reasonable numbers when I connected it to the cable of the tree bole IRT. So I guess I need to open up the splice again and double check the connections.

Cows had also chewed the cable to the Floor well sensor. They had pushed the plastic conduit around until some wire was exposed and chewed a small section. There was enough slack to cut off the chewed section and reattach the cable but the sensor did not report numbers. It was getting power and the data lines had continuity. Maybe something got shorted in the chewing. Any way CTD-10 sn 1260403156 was brought in for testing.

Z-cam three had been rotated almost 180 to the west. I rotated it back. The other zcams seemed fine.

The road well box had been thoroughly kicked about again even though I had piled rocks on it. Again it seems to have survived and I piled more rocks on it.

We left for Vaira at about 13:20

Field Data

No tank data

Well Depth

Date	Location	Depth (feet)
2021-04-18	VR_pond	17.82
2021-04-18	TZ_floor	30.4
2021-04-18	TZ_road	38.4
2021-04-18	TZ_tower	34.35
2021-04-18	VR_well	56.25

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

0000

Date	DOY	Rep	Depth	Tower_1	Floor_South_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	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	Soil_Transect_4_3	Soil_Transect_3_3	Soil_Transect_2_3	Soil_Transect_1_3	SoilCO2_West_A_3	SoilCO2_West_C_3	Tower_4	Floor_South_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	SoilCO2_West_B_3	Spacial Count
2021-04-18	108	0	nan	13.8	3.3	7.4	11.2	11.1	5.3	14.7	9.4	4.2	20.3	15.8	14.2	19.7	22.5	9	21	6.9	17.9	23.7	26.8	17	22.6	26.2	25.4	27.6	26	39.4	40.3	23.1	36.5	46.6	23.1	41.4	42.3	44.3
2021-04-18	108	1	nan	13.2	4.2	8.3	11.2	11.1	6.2	15	9.4	3.9	20.3	15.8	14.8	19.7	22.5	8.7	21.3	6.9	17.9	22.9	27.1	18.2	23.2	27.6	25.1	26.5	25.1	38.5	40.5	22.2	36.2	45.4	23.1	41.4	42.5	44.3	25.1
2021-04-18	108	2	nan								9.7									6.3																	42		24.8
2021-04-18	108	Avg	0-15cm																																					0
2021-04-18	108	Avg	15-30cm																																					0
2021-04-18	108	Avg	30-45cm																																					0
2021-04-18	108	Avg	45-60cm																																					0

mode = both
Moisture Point Probes VR
Array ( [0] => Flux_Tower_1 [1] => Biomass_Cage_1 [2] => Flux_Tower_2 [3] => Biomass_Cage_2 [4] => Flux_Tower_3 [5] => Biomass_Cage_3 [6] => Flux_Tower_4 [7] => Biomass_Cage_4 )

0000

Date	DOY	Rep	Depth	Flux_Tower_1	Biomass_Cage_1	Flux_Tower_2	Biomass_Cage_2	Flux_Tower_3	Biomass_Cage_3	Flux_Tower_4	Biomass_Cage_4	Spacial Count
2021-04-18	108	0	nan	3	1.5	13	7.8	7.8	16.2	17	18.5
2021-04-18	108	1	nan	2.7	1.8	13.3	8.1	7.6	16.5	17	19.1
2021-04-18	108	Avg	0-15cm									0
2021-04-18	108	Avg	15-30cm									0
2021-04-18	108	Avg	30-45cm									0
2021-04-18	108	Avg	45-60cm									0

No TZ grass heigth found

No VR grass heigth found

Tree DBH

Date	Tag#	Reading (mm)
2021-04-18	1	12.2
2021-04-18	102	7.8
2021-04-18	2	12.0
2021-04-18	245	13.6
2021-04-18	3	17.8
2021-04-18	4	11.9
2021-04-18	5	4.8
2021-04-18	6	17.0
2021-04-18	7	20.0
2021-04-18	72	11.9
2021-04-18	79	12.3