Field Notes

Fieldnotes Limited To:
Site = Vaira
Year = 2001

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49 Rows returned:
SiteDateAuthorSummary
Tonzi/Vaira (341) 2001-12-07 09:00:00 Dennis Baldocchi Removed 4 of 6 new batteries to fix charging issues.
Tonzi (314) 2001-11-10 10:30:00 Dennis Baldocchi Power on tower was down upon arrival; installed moisture point MP 917 soil probes; swapped licors.
Tonzi/Vaira (284) 2001-10-11 09:00:00 Ted Hehn Working on power systems, new Floor program, new Vaira met program
Tonzi/Vaira (257) 2001-09-14 09:00:00 Ted Hehn Added PC watch dog to Vaira, Removed three KZ PAR sensor
Tonzi/Vaira (218) 2001-08-06 08:30:00 LiuKang Xu Cows got inside the fence at Vaira, power problems.
Tonzi/Vaira (214) 2001-08-02 09:00:00 LiuKang Xu Both flux systems running, data downloaded. 6400 measurements
Tonzi/Vaira (204) 2001-07-23 08:30:00 LiuKang Xu Checking systems - reboots, ACi curves
Vaira (183) 2001-07-02 14:52:00 Dennis Baldocchi Fixed and installed soil moisture sensors, soil samples, checked flux system.
Tonzi/Vaira (176) 2001-06-25 09:00:00 Dennis Baldocchi Rained in the region
Vaira (172) 2001-06-21 15:00:00 Ted Hehn Check PC.
Vaira (171) 2001-06-20 14:56:00 Ted Hehn Replace PC enclosure, replace PC, remove PC battery
Vaira (171) 2001-06-20 07:58:00 Dennis Baldocchi pc 208 edlog function does not work on system; pc mouse bug, opening various windows and icons.
Vaira (170) 2001-06-19 14:54:00 Ted Hehn Changed power management settings on PC.
Tonzi/Vaira (166) 2001-06-15 08:00:00 LiuKang Xu Eddy hung at Vaira reboot, ACi curves, replace Tower laptop, gates and lids were left open last time.
Vaira (160) 2001-06-09 14:43:00 Ted Hehn Replaced PC batteries, removed PAR sensors.
Vaira (159) 2001-06-08 14:33:00 Ted Hehn Reconnected soil probe, reprogrammed PC, site maintenance.
Vaira (157) 2001-06-06 13:53:00 Ted Hehn Trouble shooting with pressure bomb, checked flux towers, started aspirator at Tonzi.
Vaira (152) 2001-06-01 15:08:00 Ted Hehn Cleaned solar panels, installed Windows 2K on PCs.
Vaira (151) 2001-05-31 09:00:00 Dennis Baldocchi Extreme heat killed grass & also caused malfunction in LI 6400; drought effect on oaks uses more air than usual from tank; T/Rh is aspirated.
Vaira (145) 2001-05-25 09:30:00 Dennis Baldocchi 5/25/ 2001 Cloudy and Hot 9:30 at Vaira ranch, stop the gillsonic program and reboot the computer. At Tonzi A_PAR measuremnts. Around 10:45 download flux data from the tower and floor systems. At 12:15 check both systems , both running good.
Vaira (144) 2001-05-24 09:00:00 LiuKang No system issues, downloaded flux and met data.
Vaira (140) 2001-05-20 13:49:00 Ted Hehn On Sunday, 20 May, the tower radiation system became operational. The Temp/RH sensor I installed did not work correctly and will be replaced on my next site visit. Although we are currently logging this data, the MD9/PC208 configuration has not been insta
Vaira (137) 2001-05-17 09:00:00 LiuKang Data was not retrieved due to computer problems.
Vaira (131) 2001-05-11 09:00:00 Dennis Baldocchi Li-cor batteries low voltage; data downloaded and systems running properly.
Tonzi (127) 2001-05-07 00:00:00 Ted Hehn Quantum line sensor moved to Tonzi; rain gauge sensor tripped multiple times.
Vaira (124) 2001-05-04 09:00:00 Dennis Baldocchi On 5/4 Fri. d124 Li-Cor 6400 measurements on Oak trees at Tonzi ranch. in the morning 4 A/Ci curves and inthe afternoon 4 A_PAR curves. Vcmax, calculated by using the initial slope of dA/dCi, seems increased lot last week, please see summarized file on S
Tonzi/Vaira (123) 2001-05-03 09:00:00 LiuKang Xu Forgot tripod for 6400, standard data collection
Vaira (123) 2001-05-03 09:00:00 Dennis Baldocchi Downloaded raw data, met and soil data collected, site instruments running properly.
Tonzi/Vaira (117) 2001-04-27 09:00:00 LiuKang Xu ACi curves, Swapped 7500 at Vaira, grass height and LAI
Vaira (108) 2001-04-18 09:00:00 Dennis Baldocchi April 18, 2001: D108 Vaira Ranch : Canopy height measurement: 28 samples, mean=18,5 cm , std=4.7 cm. Leaf water potential and A/Ci curve measurement at Tonzi ranch.
Vaira (107) 2001-04-17 17:00:00 Dennis Baldocchi April 17 D107 1700 Looks like the time when the cows got into the met station and chewed through wires
Tonzi/Vaira (98) 2001-04-08 10:00:00 Unknown No raw data files fond on laptop, file set up changed to 1 & gillsonic restarted.
Vaira (96) 2001-04-06 00:00:00 Unknown Downloaded data - started to rain see more notes on 04/08
Vaira (81) 2001-03-22 12:00:00 Dennis Baldocchi Swapped IRGAs; fixed Licor sensor; reinstalled commercial voltage converter; swapped T/RH sensors.
Vaira (74) 2001-03-15 10:00:00 Dennis Baldocchi Changed CR23x program, removed soil moisture/heat fluxes; T/RH sensor was dead for a few days.
Vaira (72) 2001-03-13 10:53:00 LiuKang Check flux system, PC, batteries, and chamber collars.
Vaira (72) 2001-03-13 00:00:00 Dennis Baldocchi PC208 was not communicating with the CR10x; adjusted batteries providing energy for proper procedure.
Vaira (67) 2001-03-08 10:15:00 Dennis Baldocchi Computer was dead, could not collect a lot of data.
Vaira (60) 2001-03-01 16:00:00 Dennis Baldocchi D60, March 1 We down loaded flux data at about 1610 to 1700 hours. Took 2 samples of plant matter. We noticed that the soil moisture sensors were not giving the right output. Needed to put the red wire on 12 v dc. Now we are getting good signals. The soi
Vaira (54) 2001-02-23 10:10:00 Dennis Baldocchi Replaced Li-cor 7500; finished setting up step relay MUX for soil temperature and moisture measurements.
Vaira (54) 2001-02-23 09:00:00 Dennis Baldocchi Ted changing cr10x program.
Vaira (47) 2001-02-16 10:45:00 Dennis Baldocchi Data logger on the soil system was dead; cows chewed through soil sensor cable; raingauge finally fixed.
Vaira (40) 2001-02-09 00:00:00 Dennis Baldocchi Feb 9. Raining in the region
Vaira (39) 2001-02-08 11:00:00 Dennis Baldocchi Swapped Licors; fixed programs that renamed campbell data logger filed; growth is low for measured plant height.
Vaira (38) 2001-02-07 00:00:00 Dennis Baldocchi html

Feb 7, 2001

Ted is documenting the LICOR IRGAS. Found #35 CO2 on the scale of 10 to 25 mmol m-3 for the 0 to 5 volt scale. This was the setting I had used in Oregon

We set #42 originally at 13-20 mmol m-3 for the 0

Vaira (30) 2001-01-30 09:00:00 Dennis Baldocchi Zip drive and power inverter missing, could not collect data; swapped Incoming Par sensor; swapped out IRGA with number 75b-0073.
Vaira (16) 2001-01-16 00:00:00 Dennis Baldocchi Communication wire between laptop and met station damaged.
Vaira (5) 2001-01-05 10:30:00 Dennis Baldocchi Swapped out Gillsonic and Licor; system is drying down (due to the drought).
Vaira (3) 2001-01-03 10:00:00 Dennis Baldocchi Fixed md9 systems and fixed communications between computer and data loggers; the sonic was dead.