Monday, December 31, 2007

Gas sampling

December 31, 2007

Collected gas samples in RWG, RWB, RCG, and RCF.

With Leigh Ann



Wednesday, December 19, 2007

Gas sampling and CO2 flux measurement

December 19, 2007

Collected gas samples all sites but LWG and JWGH.
Measured CO2 flux in LWB,LWBH, JWG, and JWGH.

With Kris and Seth











Ground water sampling to analyse dissolved N2O

December 18, 2007

Collected groundwater samples in North and Sout Risdal sites.

With Jessi

Wednesday, December 12, 2007

Gas sampling and CO2 flux measurement

December 12, 2007

Collected gas samples in LWB, LWG, RCF, RCG, RWG, RWB, JWG, and JWGH.

Measured CO2 flux in JWG, JWGH.

With Seth and Bryan

Saturday, December 08, 2007

Gas sampling and CO2 flux measurement

December 5, 2007

Collected gas samples in all sites but JWG,JWGH, JWB, LWG.
Measured CO2 flux in JWG, JWGH, LWB, LWBH.

With Leigh Ann and Eric












Tuesday, November 27, 2007

Harvesting trees in riparian buffers

November 27, 28, 2007

Cut trees (shrub 25, green ash 18, and silver mapel 21) in Lonnie Strum site.

Randomly selected 5 shrub, 3 green ash and 3 silver maple for biomass measurement.

Weighed the sample trees and shrubs.

Collected wood samples for determining moisture contents, carbon and nitrogen.


- With Leigh Ann, Kris, Bryan, Jack, and Seth











Monday, November 19, 2007

Gas sampling, CO2 flux measurement and harvesting grasses

November 19, 2007



Collected gas samples in JWG, JWB and JWGH.


Measured CO2 flux in JWG and JWGH.


Collected soil and grasses samples in JWGH.


Harvested grasses in JWGH.



With Jess and Bryan






Tuesday, November 13, 2007

Gas sampling and CO2 flux measurement

November 13, 2007

Collected gas samples all sites but JWGH.

Measured CO2 flux in LWB and LWBH.


With Seth and Bryan



Wednesday, October 10, 2007

Gas sampling and CO2 flux measurement

October 9 and 10, 2007

Collected gas samples at all sites but JWG.
Measured CO2 flux at LWBH.

With Seth and Eric












Tuesday, September 25, 2007

Gas sampling and CO2 flux measurement

September 25, 2007

Collected gas samples at all sites but LWGH.
Measured CO2 flux in JWG and JWGH.
Took out anchors, a datalogger and and 5 poly bags from crop field.


With Bryan and Seth

Gas sampling, CO2 flux measurement and groundwater sampling

September 18, 20 and 21

Collcted gas samples at all sites but LWG and JWGH.
Measured CO2 flux in LWG and LWGH.
Collected groundwater samples in North and South R. Risdal site.

With Nathan, Jess, Seth and Bryan

Tuesday, September 11, 2007

Gas sampling and CO2 flux measurement

Septemer 11, 2007

Collected gas samples all sites but LWBH.
Measured CO2 flux in JWG and JWGH.
A datalogger in LWG was indicationg 'error'- Need to change the datalogger

With Bryan and Seth










Tuesday, September 04, 2007

Gas sampling and CO2 flux measurement

September 4, 2007

Collected gas samples from all sites but JWGH.

Measured CO2 flux in LWB,LWBH.



With Bryan and Seth

Tuesday, August 28, 2007

Gas sampling and CO2 flux measurement

August 28, 2007



Collected gas samples in JWB, LWB, and LWBH.

Measure CO2 flux in JWG, JWGH, LWB, and LWBH.


With Bryan and Seth



Monday, August 27, 2007

Gas sampling

August 27, 2007

Collected gas samples in RWG, RWB, RCG, RCF, JWG, and JWGH.

With Nathan



Thursday, August 16, 2007

Groundwater sampling for dissolved N2O gas

August 16, 2007

Collected groundwater samples in North and South Ron Risdal sites.

With Jess.

Wednesday, August 15, 2007

Gas sampling and soil CO2 flux monitoring

July 14, 2007

Collected gas samples in RWG, RWB, RCG and RCF.
Measured soil CO2 flux in JWG and JWGH.

with Leigh Ann


July 15, 2007

Collected gas samples in LWB, LWBH, LWG, JWB, JWG and JWGH

with Eric

Thursday, August 09, 2007

Gas sampling and soil CO2 flux monitoring

August 9, 2007

Collected gas samples in LWB and LWBH.
Measured CO2 flux in LWB, LWBH, JWG, and JWGH.


With Rebecca


Tuesday, August 07, 2007

Gas sampling and fix a datalogger in JWG

July 08, 2007

Collected gas samples in RCF, RCG, RWB, RWG, JWB, JWG and JWG2.

Fixed a datalogger in JWG.


With Leigh Ann and Rebecca



Wednesday, August 01, 2007

Gas sampling and install new sites

August 1, 2007

Collected gas samples in LWG and LWB.

Installed new 5 anchors (20cm and 5cm) in LWG2 and LWB2.

Installed new dataloggers (with soil moisture and temperatures) in LWG2 and LWB2 sites.

With Rebecca and Eric













Tuesday, July 31, 2007

Gas sampling

July 31, 2007

Collected gas samples all sites but LWB and LWG.

With Eric and Rebecca

Monday, July 30, 2007

Intact soil core sampling and N mineralization experiment

July 30, 2007

Collected intact soil cores in all sites.
Collected the buried soil bags from RWG, RWB, RCG and RCF.
Newly buried soil bags to RWG, RWB, RCG and RCF.
Measure soil moisture and extracted inorganic-N in the lab


With Eric




Fig. The most delicious bread in the world.

Thursday, July 19, 2007

Groundwater sampling for dissolved N2O gas

July 19, 2007

Collected groundwater samples from North and South Ron Risdal sites.

With Jess and Hiwati

Tuesday, July 17, 2007

24hr gas sampling in riparian buffers and a crop field

July 16-17, 2007

Collected gas samples every 3hr in RWG, RWB, RCG and RCF from 10:00 July 16, 2007 to 7:00 July 17, 2007.


With Leigh Ann, Keegan, Kris, Eric and Rebecca


Tuesday, July 10, 2007

Gas sampling

July 10, 2007

Collected gas samples in all sites.

with Rebecca and Eric.


Monday, July 09, 2007

Gas sampling

July 05, 2007

Collected gas samples in RWG, RWB, RCG, and RCF.



with Rebecca and Jess

Tuesday, June 19, 2007

Groundwater sampling for dissolved N2O gas

June 19, 2007

Collected groundwater samples in Ron Risdal site.

With Jessi


How to collect groundwater for analyzing dissolved N2O?

Friday, June 15, 2007

Gas sampling

June 15, 2007

Collected gas sample in all sites.

With Eric and Jessica

Tuesday, June 12, 2007

Soil sampling and changed a soil moisture sensor

June 12, 2007

Collected 10cm depth intact soil core samples from all sites.

Collected the buried bags and buried new soil bags in RWG, RWB,RCG, and RCF.

Extracted inorganic-N with 2M KCl solution in the lab and filterated it.

Changed the damaged soil moisture sensor to new one in RWB.


With Eric

Friday, June 08, 2007

Gas sampling and install a data logger in crop field

June 8, 2007

Collected gas samples in all sites.

Installed a datalogger with a soil moisture sensor and a soil temperature sensor.

The soil moisture sensor in Ron Risdal forest buffer site was damaged and is needed to change new one.

With Jessi and Eric













Friday, June 01, 2007

Gas sampling

June 1, 2007

Collected gas samples in Ron Risdal sites (Crop field, warm season and cool season grass filter and forest buffer).


With Coral and Leigh Ann







Thursday, May 31, 2007

Groundwater sampling for dissolved N2O gas

May 31, 2007

Collected groundwater in Strum and Risdal sites.

With Jessica.

Saturday, May 26, 2007

Gas sampling

May 25, 2007

Collected gas samples at all sites.


With Coral and Eric


How to collect gas sample on soil surface?




Sunday, May 20, 2007

Gas sampling

May 18, 2007

Collected gas samples at all sites.

HOBO datalogger in LWB was dead. New batteries are need.


With Jessi and Coral



Forest buffer in John Risdal site


Warm season grass filter in John Risdal site