Wednesday, December 23, 2009

December 15th - Jan 5th

In Peru. Christmas in Lima and then travelling to Manu park in the Andes to assist on a project looking at climate change impacts on frog reproduction and growth in conjunction with Berkeley and La Mollina, Peru.

Monday, December 7, 2009

Saturday & Sunday – 12/ (05 & 06) /09

  • Moving to new house in Laupahoehoe to be located closer to field site. Here we are 5 minutes from entrance to experimental forest versus 45 from Hilo.

 

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Friday – 12/04/09

  • Field work
  • Setup and cleaned traverse
  • No leaf profiles possible as we ran out of time due to extensive cleaning and traverse setup issues
  • Traverse 5 is ready for quick install and profile collection on Wednesday

Thursday – 12/03/09

  • Working on new house, installation, etc…

Wednesday – 12/02/09

  • Scanning leaf area at IPIF
  • Entering questionnaires

Wednesday, December 2, 2009

Tuesday – 12/01/09

  • Leaf area profiles. 15 of 30 completed now.

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Looking down at Angelica from on a traverse. She’s preparing to shoot my location in 3 dimensions using a laser rangefinder/360 compass system (Trupulse 360).

 

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A few of the many tools needed to identify leaf locations at high precision in 3 dimensions. Sonic rangefinders, Trupulse 360 and lots of climbing gear.