Field Notes

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Vaira: 2011-04-15 11:00:00 (DOY 105)
Author: Joe Verfaillie
Others: Siyan (Sunny, Alex)

Summary: Removed 2007 data from computer, standard field work.

Vaira
4/15/2011

I arrived at Vaira with Siyan (and Sunny and Alex) about 11am. It was warm and sunny with a little breeze from the northwest. There were high thin clouds. Things have dried off quite a bit. Puddles in the road are now dry. The trees have put on leaves fast maybe close to 80% complete now. Some of the grass has seed heads. The grass doesn’t seem to be as big and abundant as last year, maybe due to cooler and wetter spring?

I moved the 2007 archived data of the computer and there is now 13GB of free space on the drive. I left the zipping software in the 2008 folders, but I don’t think I will remove more archived data until the disk space get small again.

I also copied the latest data.

I did the Moisture Point measurements. A couple of the new probes are still reporting low values for some segments. Maybe rocky areas are reducing the soil moisture?

I checked the computer clock against my cell phone and rest the time from 10:41 to 10:37.

Field Data

No tank data

Well Depth

DateLocationDepth (feet)
2011-04-15TZ_floor10.09
2011-04-15TZ_road19.4
2011-04-15TZ_tower13.9

No TZ Moisture Point data found

No VR Moisture Point data found

No TZ grass heigth found

No VR grass heigth found

Tree DBH

DateTag#Reading (mm)

No water potential data found

No VR Grass Biomass data found

No VR OakLeaves Biomass data found

No VR PineNeedles Biomass data found

12 photos found

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20110415VR_Flower.jpg ( 2011-04-15 10:23:25 ) Full size: 2560x1920
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20110415VR_OakTree1.jpg ( 2011-04-15 10:19:02 ) Full size: 2560x1920
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20110415VR_OakTree2.jpg ( 2011-04-15 10:20:39 ) Full size: 2560x1920
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vr_768.jpg ( 2011-04-15 11:35:12 ) Full size: 1600x1200
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vr_7686.jpg ( 2011-04-15 11:37:03 ) Full size: 1600x1200
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vr_7688.jpg ( 2011-04-15 11:37:18 ) Full size: 1600x1200
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vr_7689.jpg ( 2011-04-15 11:37:48 ) Full size: 1600x1200
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vr_769.jpg ( 2011-04-15 11:39:06 ) Full size: 1600x1200
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vr_7691.jpg ( 2011-04-15 11:39:22 ) Full size: 1600x1200
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vr_7692.jpg ( 2011-04-15 11:39:26 ) Full size: 1600x1200
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vr_7693.jpg ( 2011-04-15 11:43:33 ) Full size: 1600x1200
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vr_7694.jpg ( 2011-04-15 11:43:46 ) Full size: 1600x1200
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Graphs display:
9 sets found

16 VR_met graphs found

Temperatures

System Power Voltage

Soil Temperatures Set 1

Soil Temperatures Set 2

Soil Temperature Set 3

Soil Temperature at -4cm

Soil Heat Flux

Soil Moisture

Photosynthetic Active Radiation

Short/Long Wave Radiation

LED sensor

Vaira PPT

Peltier SHF Plates

Peltier SHF Temperatures

LED NDVI

NDVI SRS Raw Data

No data found for VR_flux.
No data found for VR_soilco2.
No data found for VR_pond.
Can't check TZVR_mixed
No data found for VR_fd.
No data found for VR_processed.
No data found for VR_arable.
No data found for VR_soilvue.