Tuesday – 10/27/09 – 5:45 am

• Angelica work day – download and geo-reference RS satellite imagery.
• Make new biomass correlation statistics for chap. 3
• Make descriptive figure (niche width)
• Continue formatting tables
• Finalize sensor hanging array system for Wednesday field work.
• Test sensor weatherproofing – email to arrange tower installation date next week.

Monday – 10/26/09 – 8 am

• Field work cancelled due to injury
• Received new BF3!!! Will begin setup and testing if possible here at the house.
• Arrange for installation of BF3 next week if possible.
• Finalize microclimate sensor hanging system, bought the parts just need to install them.
• Collecting wood density values for all species (220 sps.) in Chapter 3.
• Continue final statistics and figures for PNAS chapter 3 article.
• Yeah, finished the biomass, wood density, and a great figure.. yeah!!!!! Here is a preliminary version below…

Saturday – 10/24/09 – 8 am

• Decide on figures and tables for Bolivia article (PNAS)
• Finalize hanging mechanisms for interior forest sensors
• Download images for Costa Rica project
• Continue geo-referencing imagery for Peru Amazon project

Thursday – 10/21/09 – 8 am

• Fighting the flu, had to cancel field work today
• Working on Bolivia chapter 3 analyses
• New BF3 shipped directly to us from England, should have it within a week.

Wednesday – 10/21/09 – 8 am

• Check all traverse gear
• Pack all equipment for LAD collection tomorrow
• Finish entering questionnaires
• Continue statistical analysis of Bolivia data

Tuesday – 10/20/09 – 5 am

• Write inter-variable correlation analysis code for Bolivia project.
• Finish writing up results section.
• Finish any missing statistical analyses.
• Make a list of figures for article vs... appendix.
• Angelica work day – enter >= 10 PEN questionnaires.
• Finish microclimate field hanging system.
• Check all traverse climbing gear and organize for tomorrow.
• Check all equipment for leaf area profiles for tomorrow.

Monday – 10/19/09 – 7:30 am

• Download microclimate data (Cr10x, HOBOs)
• Write R code for data organization / merging
• Finish sensor design/construction of installation method
• Finish statistical analysis for Bolivia project

- recheck highlighted numbers in tables

• Decide on most important figures for article

- appendix Vs. main text

• Organize family information for all trees in Bolivia structure dataset.
• Windspeed calibration successful. Differences due to different locations at the test site.

Sunday – 10/18/09 – 8 am

• Finish flow chart for Bolivia analysis
• Redo previous analyses as necessary
• Write R code for final analyses and descriptive stats
• Download all sensor data (CR-10x and HOBOs)
• Compare for climate data validity (wind, temp, rH, PAR)
• Start R code for climate data organization and merging
• Enter PEN questionnaires for Angelica

Saturday – 10/17/09 – 8 am

• Visit new future field work site – Hakalau
• Input PEN questionnaires to meet deadline.

Friday – 10/16/09 – 5 am

• Monte carlo R code (finish) 5-7 am
• Priority RS for Brazil nut sustainability project
• IDL coding for image cleaning and manipulation
• Collection of image statistics

Example classification, red = deforestation 2000-2005, Peru trans-oceanic road impacts. Logging roads are visible.

Thursday – 10/15/09 – 5 am

• Angelica PEN data entry 7-6 pm
• R scripting for Bolivia project: 5-7 am
• Delta-T identified problem with our previous 2 BF3 units. There is a seal error in the recently constructed units. I should hopefully have a new working unit within a week!

Wednesday – 10/14/09 – 5:15 am

• monte carlo R code (continue)
• finish datalogger weather storage unit
• install hobo software on field laptop
• connect sensors and check data quality
• check traverse equipment and make checklist
• laup keys return / checkout
• bf3 update (sensors status in England)
• finish sewing desiccant bags
• given time to field and download weather data, install new CR-200 programs
• Success! (11:44 am) – datalogger, sensors and HOBOs all working correctly. Collecting data now for the next 5 days for calibration/verification.

Tuesday – 10/13/09 – 6:30 am

• Angelica work day – entering PEN questionnaires

Monday – 10/12/2009 – 7 am

• Complete review for Biological Conservation (priority).
• Chap 3. Continue writing R code for primary forest age error assessment.
• Finish interior forest microclimate sensor setup and datalogger housing units.
• Finish sewing desiccant mesh bags.
• Install sensor setup outside house for rest of week to error check and inter-calibrate climate data.
• Continue readings PDFs on C & N stable isotopes
• 6 pm. construction completed on microclimate sensors!

Saturday – 09/10/2009 – 8 am

• Angelica work day – entering questionnaires
• Sewing desiccant bags
• Continue R scripting Monte Carlo error code
• Finish review for Biological Conservation
• Learning about MODIS imagery…how to download and process.

Friday – 10/09/2009 – 5:05 am

• Have initial results from phylogenetic analysis – wrote R code to enable Monte Carlo runs on errors
• Learn Phylocon v.4.1 and R picante package for phylogenetic analysis. Making big progress on this section.
• Continue coding R error code, work to include phylogenetic analysis as well as linear regressions
• Construct weather proof data logger containers for microclimate sensors.
• Continue organizing bibliography (mendeley)
• Read isotope articles and incorporate into MS

Thursday – 10/08/2009 – 6:40 am

• Angelica assistant day: enter PEN questionnaires
• Continue coding R program to check variables in Bolivia chapter.
• Design and construct datalogger weather proof shells
• Design and construct desiccant storage bags

Wednesday – 10/07/2009 – 6:20 am

• Continue analysis of species mean age Vs. leaf nutrients
• Continue writing methods for chapter 3.
• Finish construction of interior forest sensors.
• Finish migrating work from laptop to desktop
• Posted my research bibliography online for eventual use by colleagues in Latin America and elsewhere. Weblink is:

http://www.mendeley.com/collections/103232/0-All-Documents/

• Interesting updates to Bolivia succession project. See PDF download at:

http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/1447763/Broadbent_Chap_3_Bolivia_Succesion_Update_100709.pdf

• New report on illegal logging worldwide featuring Asnerlab selective logging / forest degradation research. See link below for PDF:

http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/1447763/Global%20Witness_2009_Vested%20Interests_Industrialloggingandcarbonintropicalforests.pdf

Tuesday - 10/06/2009 – 8 am

• Working at home – Angelica assistant day
• Review due for Biological Conservation Journal
• Continue organizing / writing Bolivia article (chap. 3)
• Most of today: entering PEN questionnaires from Peru
• Continuing work on interior forest microclimate sensor construction.

Monday – 10/05/2009 – 6:30 am

• Work hours: 6:30 am – 6 pm
• Dealing with broken BF3, the third one. Finally figured out the design issue which Delta-T will hopefully resolve and send me a new one promptly.
• Fix problem with bibliographic software. (solved, 7:20 am)
• Read articles on stable nitrogen isotopes. Many new ones downloaded.
• Continue designing tower climbing safety & rescue course for IPIF. This is necessary for Angelica and I to get certified so we can maintain and fix issues with the BF3 sunshine sensor.
• Continue data analysis for Bolivia chapter 3. Rachel is helping with the phylogenetic analysis which should be done within a week.
• Finish designing and constructing interior forest hanging array. Half completed today (6 pm).
• Download link for Bolivia succession research update:

http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/1447763/Broadbent_Chap_3_Bolivia_Succesion_Update_092709.pdf

Saturday - 10/03/2009 – 5:45 am

• Work hours: 5:40 am – 8 pm
• made  dataset for phylogenetic analyses with Rachel
• Modified CR20o code for Vaisalas, trying to get their data equivalent with the tower bucket data. However, I learned the tower bucket is not calibrated so will trust the Vaisala data.
• Entered Angelica’s questionnaires into Access.
• Refined bibliographic software and database.
• Dealing with 2nd broken BF3 sunshine sensor. Apparently a problem in the batch with the weatherproofing. See photo below for what 7 days with only slight rain did to to the 2800$ unit.