Field Notes

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Vaira: 2010-05-28 05:10:00 (DOY 148)
Author: Siyan Ma
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When: Date: 5/28/2010 , Day: 148 , Watch Time: 5:10 am .
Where: Tonzi/Vaira Ranch
Who: Siyan
Weather: partially cloudy
Phenology: yellow flowers (HYGL), green oak leaves

Tonzi

Mud puddles on the road at Tonzi

Grass going to seed at Tonzi



Vaira

Yellow flowers at Vaira

Brown grass at Vaira



Summary
  1. Pre-dawn leaf water potential: oak leaf= -5 bar; pin needle=-6 bar.
  2. A-Ci curves for oak and gray pine
  3. check and download data at Tower, Floor, and Vaira
  4. calibrate Li-800 in the field
  5. collected samples of grasses, oak leaves and pin needles
  6. dendrometers
  7. soil moisture
  8. groundwater well:

Date

DOY

Location

Depth from the black thing (feet)

5/28/2010

148

Floor

20.41



Tower

24.31



roadside

29.48

Vaira_Grass Site
  1. Fence and gate power: 12 v.
  2. Panel and Batteries: ok v; ok amps; ok amps.
  3. Reading from Gillsonic screen before downloading data. (The value of H2O and CO2 should be in the range of 0 – 5 v.)

Vaira Gill sonic screen before downloading data
  1. downloading data YES!
  2. Check the fans of air temp. and relative humidity sensors at Vaira. YES!
  3. Check MD-9 system connections YES!
  4. Check CR23X with two multiplexers

I click rain gage several times to test whether it is functioning.
Testing rain gauge plot screen shot
Testing rain gauge table screen shot
  1. Check levels of Radiation sensors, clear up surfaces.YES!
  2. Check rain gage, make sure not clogged. YES!
  3. Closed gate and set up fence. YES!

Tonzi_Tower Site

  1. Fence and gate power: 12 v.
  2. Panel and Batteries: ok v; ok amps; ok amps.
  3. Reading from Gillsonic screen before downloading data. (The value of H2O and CO2 should be in the range of 0 – 5 v.)

Tonzi Tower Gill sonic screen before downloading data
  1. downloading data YES!
  2. check the fans of air temp. and relative humidity sensors on the tower and the floor. YES!
  3. Check rain gage, make sure not clogged. YES!
  4. Check calibration cylinders;

CO2 500 psig; flow 20 psi; 418.8 ppm.
N2 2000 psig; flow 20 psi.
Manually calibrate Li-800. Following Ted’s instruction: H:\IoneSavanna_2004\Tower_2004\CO2Profile\LI800_Calibration_Procedure_2Nov04.txt
Is the pump running‌ YES.
Manually calibrating Li-800 gas analyzer screen shot precal
After zero
Manually calibrating Li-800 gas analyzer screen shot CO2 zero

after span [CO2]=418.8ppm
Manually calibrating Li-800 gas analyzer screen shot span
  1. close gate and set up fence. YES!

Toniz_Floor Site
  1. Fence and gate power: 12 v.
  2. Panel and Batteries: ok v; ok amps; ok amps.
  3. Reading from Gillsonic screen before downloading data. (The value of H2O and CO2 should be in the range of 0 – 5 v.)

Tonzi Floor Gill sonic screen before downloading data
  1. downloading data YES!
  2. Check MD-9 system connections YES!

CR23X3 – floor-Met
Data logger CR23X3 – floor-Met screen


CR23X5 – soil CO2 profile

Data logger CR23X5 – soil CO2 profile screen
CR23X6 – tower-Met
Data logger CR23X6 – tower-Met screen
CR10X2 – floor-Met
Data logger CR10X2 – floor-Met screen
  1. Soil CO2 profile:

Reading from panels of analyzers

depth

Open

order

depth

Tree

order

2cm (1%)

1030

1

2cm (1%)

2940

1

4cm

1500

2

4cm

3740

4

8cm

2450

3

8cm

3460

2

16cm

2440

4

16cm

7720

3
  1. Close gate and set up fence. YES!


tonzi

7931AFE

402165

574B4B

402FF3

574632

7A432E

7A3C6E

7A3B40

7A4AAA

5/28/2010

148










sm









0-15

22.3

13.2

22.0

15.9

18.5

15.0

21.4

16.8

10.0

15-30

17.0

22.2

23.4

17.9

23.1

13.0

25.2

19.7

7.2

30-45

23.7

27.6

31.0

21.2

32.4

15.1

26.2

22.6

21.2

45-60

25.1

23.1

56.0

38.2

35.4

18.2

23.4

34.2

17.3












A6D882B

A3D04E8

A6D72F5

















0-15

22.3

15.3

17.6







15-30

17.0

4.8

21.9







30-45

23.5

21.8

23.5







45-60

31.9

32.5

39.4

















vaira

57318a

7933dee








0-15

12.7

8.7








15-30

16.1

17.5








30-45

16.5

21.8








45-60

22.8

27.7









Tonzi






Dendrometer











Date

Day

Tag #

Reading (mm)



5/28/2010

148

72

10.9





79

14.8





102

x





245

12.2





250

21.9

(reset to 10.5 on May 7, 2009)




1

21





2

10.9





3

18.9





4

9.9





5






7

12

133




8

16.5

11828




71

X





77

X





78

X





248

X

broken




255

X





‌252‌

X





6

X



Notes: “X” means not working any more.
Dendrometers installed by Gretchen group
Diagram of dendrometer loactions

Field Data

No tank data

Well Depth

DateLocationDepth (feet)
2010-05-28TZ_floor20.41
2010-05-28TZ_road29.48
2010-05-28TZ_tower24.31

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

0 photos found

Graphs display:
9 sets found

16 VR_met graphs found

Explore the graph:Temperatures in a new window

Explore the graph:System Power Voltage in a new window

Explore the graph:Soil Temperatures Set 1 in a new window

Explore the graph:Soil Temperatures Set 2 in a new window

Explore the graph:Soil Temperature Set 3 in a new window

Explore the graph:Soil Temperature at -4cm in a new window

Explore the graph:Soil Heat Flux in a new window

Explore the graph:Soil Moisture in a new window

Explore the graph:Photosynthetic Active Radiation in a new window

Explore the graph:Short/Long Wave Radiation in a new window

Explore the graph:LED sensor in a new window

Explore the graph:Vaira PPT in a new window

Explore the graph:Peltier SHF Plates in a new window

Explore the graph:Peltier SHF Temperatures in a new window

Explore the graph:LED NDVI in a new window

Explore the graph:NDVI SRS Raw Data in a new window

2 VR_flux graphs found

Explore the graph:CO2 Density in a new window

Explore the graph:Sonic Wind in a new window

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.