Field Notes

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Vaira: 2025-05-28 14:40:00 (DOY 148)
Author: Joe Verfaillie
Others: Kuno

Summary: Standard data collection, still missing some met data from the previous visit, getting dry, the pond water was very green

Vaira
2025-05-28

Kuno and I arrived at about 15:40 PDT. It was dry sunny and warm with a nice breeze. The grass is brown with the tallest stems reaching about waist high. The water hole is about half full. The stream from the pond is still full. We didn't see any cows around. I've started leaving the electric fence off since last visit.

Kuno did the well reading.

I collected the flux, met and camera data. I was missing the 5min met data from last time but it appears there wasn't any there to collect even when I tried a date range collection. Maybe the program I used to test the reflected PAR didn’t call that table. Seems I'm missing the soilvue table too from the previous visit.
The 7500 read: 434.0ppm CO2, 500.0mmol/m3 H2O, 34.6C, 99.3kPa, 101.2SS

I cleaned the outside of the phenocam window - it looked clean on the inside. I cleaned the radiometers.

We went to the pond. It's gone down a bunch since last month and the water was green like pea soup.

We left at about 16:10 PDT

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