Field Notes

Fieldnotes Limited To:
Site = Sherman Island
Year = 2010

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45 Rows returned:
SiteDateAuthorSummary
Sherman Island (355) 2010-12-21 09:30:00 Joe Verfaillie Soil CO2 23x locked up - reset, CR10X fast rad not responding but might be okay.
Sherman Island (343) 2010-12-09 15:00:00 Joe Verfaillie Quick check - A okay.
Sherman Island (336) 2010-12-02 11:30:00 Joe Verfaillie All's well, restarted computer, collected data.
Sherman Island (322) 2010-11-18 02:30:00 Joe Verfaillie swapped IRGA.
Sherman Island (321) 2010-11-17 10:00:00 Joe Verfaillie Power down due to popped GFI, copied data.
Sherman Island (309) 2010-11-05 09:30:00 Joe Verfaillie Bird on tower, bugs in box, otherwise okay.
Sherman Island (300) 2010-10-27 09:30:00 Joe Verfaillie Reinstalled computer, removed soil CO2 #6 for testing, Wendy and other in the field.
Sherman Island (294) 2010-10-21 10:00:00 Joe Verfaillie Problems with the computer, pulled for testing in the lab, collected data logger data manually.
Sherman Island (287) 2010-10-14 13:00:00 Joe Verfaillie Standard field work, pulled water pressure sensor.
Sherman Island (274) 2010-10-01 07:30:00 Joe Verfaillie LGR locked up due to high temp in box, LGR removed due to dirty mirrors and bad pressure.
Sherman Island (264) 2010-09-21 07:45:00 Joe Verfaillie Swapped diaphragm pump for rebuilt scroll pump, tested tipping bucket, sealed soil CO2 box.
Sherman Island (262) 2010-09-19 12:30:00 Jaclyn Hatala Standard field work
Sherman Island (251) 2010-09-08 07:50:00 Joe Verfaillie Check LGR low flow pressure - maybe pressure controller, SoilCO2 logger having problems - fixed, standard field work.
Sherman Island (240) 2010-08-28 11:56:00 Jaclyn Hatala Field trip, Saturday 8/28/2010
Sherman Island (229) 2010-08-17 12:00:00 Joe Verfaillie Sherman 8/17/2010 I arrived about 12 noon with Dennis and Jaclyn. It was clear, sunny and cool with a strong west wind, stronger than at Twitchell. The field is dry with some water in the ditches at the far west end. Cows in the far west end. Big tir
Sherman Island (223) 2010-08-11 09:30:00 Joe Verfaillie Sherman 8/11/2010 Arrived about 9:30am PDT with Jaclyn. It was cool and windy with clear skies and sun. A fog bank to the west seemed to get bigger, closer but then fell apart later. Bridge work continues. There are cows in the west end of the fie
Sherman Island (223) 2010-08-11 09:15:00 Jaclyn Hatala Sherman: Arrived around 9:15am, cool temperatures with a strong breeze from the W/SW. Cows were in the far northwest corner of the field, but there was plenty of "fresh evidence" that they had recently been closer to the tower. It seems like a lot of the
Sherman Island (217) 2010-08-05 13:30:00 Joe Verfaillie Sherman 2010/8/5 Arrived about 1:30PDT with Jaclyn. The field looks green, but no standing water in ditches or north third. It was sunny, warm and clear with a good west wind. Jaclyn and I took soil core profiles up wind from the tower until about
Sherman Island (209) 2010-07-28 09:00:00 Joe Verfaillie Sherman 7/28/2010 Arrived about 9am with Jaclyn. The usual road was blocked under the big bridge by a crane truck involved with the retrofit. We went in the back way but the usual road was open on the way out. The weather was clear, sunny and warm
Sherman Island (209) 2010-07-28 09:00:00 Jaclyn Hatala Sherman: Took measurements with the LAI-2200 along the 200m transect. Clipped 5 biomass/LAI plots for lab analysis - mean LAI as measured by the lab scanner was 3.8. LAI seems to be increasing over the past few weeks at Sherman. Took Moisture Point measur
Sherman Island (195) 2010-07-14 09:30:00 Joe Verfaillie Arrived about 9:30 with Jaclyn. Warm, sunny, clear, nice breeze from the west. Much of the pepper weed flowers are yellow but looks like a big patch of fresh flower to the north of the tower. The field seems pretty dry. I fixed the mounting of the s
Sherman Island (189) 2010-07-08 12:30:00 Joe Verfaillie Sherman 7/8/2010 Arrived with Dennis and Beniamino about 12:30pm. Warm, clear, sunny and windy. The pepper weed flowers continue to die, though still and few white ones here and there. All was running. Installed the LI7700, swapped the card
Sherman Island (182) 2010-07-01 08:30:00 Joe Verfaillie Levee tower stolen, fixed web cam file naming, fix SHF plate #3
Sherman Island (173) 2010-06-22 08:30:00 Joe Verfaillie Sherman 6/22/2010 Arrived about 8:30am. Warm, clear and sunny. No wind to begin but quickly picking up to a few m/s. The pepper weed flowers have yellowed. Cows far to the west. All was running however, the second water trap just before the ext
Sherman Island (167) 2010-06-16 08:00:00 Joe Verfaillie Sherman 6-16-2010 Arrived about 8am with Jaclyn. Clear, sunny, nice wind from west, warming. The pepper weed is still in heavy bloom but the pollen seems less strong than two weeks ago. Cows far to the west. All systems running. I swapped cards
Sherman Island (154) 2010-06-03 11:30:00 Joe Verfaillie Pepper weed pollen thick in air, Jaclyn and Marga allergic.
Sherman Island (148) 2010-05-28 08:00:00 Joe Verfaillie Pepper weed more in bloom, computer locked up, LI7700 installed.
Sherman Island (140) 2010-05-20 11:00:00 Joe Verfaillie Sherman 5/20/2010 Arrived about 11am at the Levee site. Clear, warm, light wind from WNW. Our solar panels were still there and everything seemed to be still running. I put the for deep cycle car batteries from Twitchell in a blue plastic case
Sherman Island (131) 2010-05-11 13:00:00 Joe Verfaillie Sherman 5/11/2010 Arrived about 1pm at the levee site. Wind from the west, clear, cool and sunny. I set up the set of three solar panels at the base of the tower and bolted them to the tower. I hung a charge controller, CR1000 and WMP PCI in a Ca
Sherman Island (125) 2010-05-05 13:00:00 Joe Verfaillie Calibrated the LGR, Picarro equipment gone.
Sherman Island (123) 2010-05-03 12:30:00 Joe Verfaillie Sherman 5/3/2010 Arrived about 12:30pdt system still running on batteries. Let it run until about 12:45 while I cleaned up. Light wind from west hot sunny dry. Wind generator hills are turning brown. I could smell the muck from the tidal area, ti
Sherman Island (119) 2010-04-29 09:30:00 Joe Verfaillie Pepper weed in cow fence chest high, flower bulbs close to blooming, Jaclyn took soil samples from wetland area under the levee tower and one profile by Sherman tower
Sherman Island (112) 2010-04-22 07:30:00 Joe Verfaillie Sherman 4/22/2010 Arrived about 7:30 – cool, partly cloudy breeze from west. The breeze shifted north by midday. The trailer was still running. Started up the generator and went to pasture site. Copied data and swapped card. LGR: 8:24P
Sherman Island (111) 2010-04-21 10:00:00 Joe Verfaillie Batteries ran out, trailer dead, Got images from plantcam.
Sherman Island (105) 2010-04-15 09:30:00 Joe Verfaillie Sherman 4/15/2010 Arrived about 9:30am with Jaclyn. I dropped Jaclyn off at the pasture tower. Cool, sunny, wind from north variable to NE and NW. The ditch near the road looked full. Pepper weed in cow fence almost chest high, out side it is stil
Sherman Island (103) 2010-04-13 07:30:00 Joe Verfaillie Sherman 4/13/2010 Arrived about 7:30am. Cool, tide is high LGR trailer okay. It looked like the power system had quit before running the batteries down much. I'll have to read a manual to know. I did not collect data will do tomorrow. Started
Sherman Island (98) 2010-04-08 10:00:00 Joe Verfaillie Pepper weed outside fence 20-30cm, Plant cam only had one photo.
Sherman Island (96) 2010-04-06 11:00:00 Joe Verfaillie Installing Vaisala CO2 probes.
Sherman Island (77) 2010-03-18 12:00:00 Joe Verfaillie Grass and pepper weed beginning to get ahead of the cows, changed web cam capture rate, checked on location for the levee experiment, Jacyln took soil samples (2 profiles)
Sherman Island (70) 2010-03-11 11:50:00 Joe Verfaillie Swapped scroll pump, Collected photos from plantcam and web cam, Added ZapSnap utility. Took soil cores.
Sherman Island (56) 2010-02-25 15:00:00 Joe Verfaillie Pepper weed sprouting but grazed by cows, collected some pepper weed for Oliver.
Sherman Island (49) 2010-02-18 11:30:00 Joe Verfaillie Pepper weed being eaten by cows, Add new dayofyear program, Moved Moisture point soil probes in the field.
Sherman Island (35) 2010-02-04 09:00:00 Joe Verfaillie Get LGR trailer out, Trailer out on Aaron's truck, Dug a well.
Sherman Island (28) 2010-01-28 09:30:00 Joe Verfaillie Ground turned by cows' hooves, Rebooted Trailer LRG, Solar power to permanent tower data loggers failed.
Sherman Island (14) 2010-01-14 07:00:00 Joe Verfaillie Experimental high speed greenhouse gas analyzer set up.