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Field Notes

<--2011-08-09 09:30:00 | 2011-09-16 09:00:00-->
Other sites visited today: Vaira

Tonzi: 2011-08-31 09:30:00 (DOY 243)
Author: Joe Verfaillie
Others: Siyan, Laurie

Summary: Standard field work, new sunset z-cam program works, strange growths on tree leaves, broke tree corer, trees beginning to yellow.

Tonzi
2011-08-31

I arrived about 10:30am PDT with Siyan and Laurie. It was clear, sunny and hot with a little breeze on the ground and a much stronger breeze from the west at the top of the tower. The grass and ground is very dry. The trees look okay, but some are yellowing and some were losing leaves in the breeze.

I serviced the z-cams. The new CR10x and CR200 programs that take photos in relation to sunset seem to be working. On August 9th the photos started at 4pm PST and by August 31st the photos started at 3:30pm PST. An advance of almost half an hour.

Radiation sensors at the top of the tower were clean. Some bird droppings on the IRGa but I think the path was okay.

The tanks for the CO2 profile system read 1600psi of N2 and 1000psi of CO2.

Siyan did standard field work.

Tram was running.

The Floor computer was hung up again. Its data shows that it has been running sporadically quitting and starting at random times of the day. I need to rebuild some field computers.

I helped Laurie pull cores for trees near the soil CO2 fence. The big tree (Luikang’s tree) seems to be hollow or rotten in the center. We broke the corer on a small tree.

I found some strange looking growths on many of the oak trees. Some of them were bright pink, spiky growths of different sizes on the surface of the leaves. Others were more yellow or green on the stems. There were also small spheres and some fuzzy pink growths.

Field Data

No tank data

Well Depth

DateLocationDepth (feet)
2011-08-31TZ_floor23
2011-08-31TZ_road32.6
2011-08-31TZ_tower28.4

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)

Water Potential - mode: raw

Time< h>SpeciesTreereadings (bar)
2011-08-31 12:03:00 OAK UNKNOWN -51.5 -41 -48.5 -31.5 -42 -38.5
2011-08-31 12:03:00 PINE OLD -20 -3 -20.5 -21.5
2011-08-31 12:03:00 PINE YNG -19.5 -5 -9 -17.5 -3.5

OAK_UNKNOWN Whole Study20110831 12:03:00 twig/leaf cluster -4.2 0.72 6
PINE_OLD Whole Study20110831 12:03:00 twig/leaf cluster -1.6 0.89 4
PINE_YNG Whole Study20110831 12:03:00 twig/leaf cluster -1.1 0.73 5

No TZ Grass Biomass data found

No TZ OakLeaves Biomass data found

No TZ PineNeedles Biomass data found

17 photos found

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20110831TZ_Acorn.jpg ( 2011-08-31 10:42:48 ) Full size: 3648x2736
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20110831TZ_BeetleRemains.jpg ( 2011-08-31 12:12:15 ) Full size: 3648x2736
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20110831TZ_FloorErrorScreen.jpg ( 2011-08-31 11:16:54 ) Full size: 3648x2736
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20110831TZ_FloorFromTower.jpg ( 2011-08-31 13:17:24 ) Full size: 3648x2736
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20110831TZ_LaurieCoring1.jpg ( 2011-08-31 13:00:48 ) Full size: 3648x2736
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20110831TZ_LaurieCoring2.jpg ( 2011-08-31 13:01:06 ) Full size: 3648x2736
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20110831TZ_LeafGrowth1.jpg ( 2011-08-31 10:36:11 ) Full size: 3648x2736
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20110831TZ_LeafGrowth2.jpg ( 2011-08-31 10:36:27 ) Full size: 3648x2736
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20110831TZ_LeafGrowth3.jpg ( 2011-08-31 10:36:50 ) Full size: 3648x2736
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20110831TZ_LeafGrowth4.jpg ( 2011-08-31 10:37:24 ) Full size: 3648x2736
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20110831TZ_LeafGrowth5.jpg ( 2011-08-31 10:37:43 ) Full size: 3648x2736
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20110831TZ_LeafGrowth6.jpg ( 2011-08-31 10:38:12 ) Full size: 3648x2736
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20110831TZ_LeafGrowth7.jpg ( 2011-08-31 10:38:32 ) Full size: 3648x2736
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20110831TZ_LeafGrowth8.jpg ( 2011-08-31 10:41:59 ) Full size: 3648x2736
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20110831TZ_LeafGrowth9.jpg ( 2011-08-31 10:42:11 ) Full size: 3648x2736
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20110831TZ_LeafGrowth10.jpg ( 2011-08-31 10:43:23 ) Full size: 3648x2736
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20110831TZ_SiteFromTower.jpg ( 2011-08-31 13:17:53 ) Full size: 3648x2736
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Graphs display:
16 sets found

No data found for TZ_Fenergy.
11 TZ_tmet graphs found

Tonzi Tower Met: Temperature and Power

Tonzi Tower Met: Solar Radiation

Tonzi Tower Met: IRT Sensors

LED Sensor Incoming

LED Sensor Outgoing

4-Band Solar Radiation

Air Temperature Profile

Relativity Humidity Profile

Tonzi Tower PRI

SRS PRI/NDVI

SRS NDVI

11 TZ_soilco2 graphs found

Tonzi Soil CO2 Profile: Open (East) CO2

Tonzi Soil CO2 Profile: Tree (West) CO2

Tonzi Soil CO2 Profile: Open (East) Temperatures

Tonzi Soil CO2 Profile: Tree (West) Temperatures

Tonzi Soil CO2 Profile: Upper CO2

Tonzi Soil CO2 Profile: Lower CO2

Tonzi Soil CO2 Profile: Upper Temperatures

Tonzi Soil CO2 Profile: Lower Temperatures

Tonzi Soil CO2 Profile: Power and Temperature

Tree 2 Soil CO2

Tree 2 Soil Temperature

Can't check TZ_mixed
3 TZ_mixed graphs found

Tonzi PPT

Tonzi CO2 and H2O Densities

Air Pressure

1 TZ_fflux graphs found

Tonzi Wind Speed

8 TZ_fmet graphs found

Soil Heat Flux

Tonzi Soil Temperature Set A

Tonzi Soil Temperatures Set B

Tonzi Soil Temperatures Set C

Tonzi Soil Temperature Set D

Well Level

Well Water Temperature

Soil Water Potential

1 TZ_tram graphs found

Tonzi Tram Incoming PAR

3 TZ_co2prof graphs found

Tower CO2 Profile Concentrations

Tower CO2 Profile Cell Pressure

CO2 Profile Sensor Temperature

No data found for TZ_irt.
No data found for TZ_windprof.
1 TZ_tflux graphs found

Tower CO2 and H2O

2 TZ_sm graphs found

Floor Solar Radiations

TZ Soil Moisture

Can't check TZ_met
1 TZ_met graphs found

Floor and Tower RH

Can't check TZVR_mixed
No data found for TZ_osu.
No data found for TZ_fd.
Tonzi Z-cam data

plot of Tonzi z-cam LAI

plot of Tonzi z-cam gap fration

 
 

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