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Vaira: 2023-11-02 10:30:00 (DOY 306)
Author: Joe Verfaillie
Others: Dennis, Arman, Jo, Owens

Summary: Showing the site to Jo Owens and Arman, the grass has sprouted, staff gauge missing from lowest post at the pond

Vaira
2023-11-02

Dennis, Arman, Jo Owens and I arrived at about 10:30 PDT. Jo is here from Australia where she works on an eucalyptus savanna site. This is Arman’s first visit to Vaira. It was clear and sunny with a few wispy high clouds. The grass is sprouting! We could see big green patches mostly under the trees driving in but it is pretty wide spread. We got some rain shortly after the last visit that must have kicked things off, but it has been dry since. Maybe some more rain coming in the next week though.

Dennis and the others measured the well while I started collecting data. I collected the met, flux, camera and FD data. All seemed well
The 7500 read: 430.6ppm CO2, 286.4mmol/m3 H2O, 27.8C, 100.1kPa, 111.7SS

Dennis cleaned the radiometers, Arman did the spectral measurements.

We went to the pond. The top of the deepest post for the staff gauges is exposed, but the staff gauge seems to have fallen off. If the forecasted rain doesn’t raise the water level too much I can try to find it with waders next time.

We left at about 11:40 PDT

Field Data

No tank data

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