Thursday, January 27, 2011

01/27/11

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Close up of fern fronds used for LiCOR 6400 analyses. These are scanned at 600 dpi and used for area calculation prior to drying and lab analysis.

Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Monday, January 24, 2011

Week of Jan 24th 2011

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Rapid progress on understory LiCOR curve sets.

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Friday, January 14, 2011

01/13/2011

Removed the sensors for calibration. Putting them up again early next week.

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Angelica carrying a full geo-referencing kit.

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LiCOR 6400 on the back, essential gear on the front. Ready to go!

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Set up in the woods.

Wednesday, January 12, 2011

01/10-12/2011–Mon-Wed

LiCORing in the rain. Good progress on understory curves. Fixed a mystery leak, hard to track down, but ultimately solved by tightening a few screws around the cuvette head. A matter of 0.8 ppm C02 variation…

Saturday, January 8, 2011

Friday, January 7, 2011

Friday 01/07/11

  • Job/Post-doc applications.
  • Bolivia analysis.
  • Sensors up and running (took 3 days to set up).
  • Prepping for LiCOR work starting tomorrow through late next week.
  • Road delineation in the Peruvian, Bolivian and Brazilian Amazon.

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Have identified nearly 5000 km of roads within our study area in the year 1986. This will also be conducted for 2000 and 2008.