Weatherproof data loggers (foreground) and pendant-style light sensors (background).
After some discussion and a small scale field trial out at our Bent Creek Experimental Forest lab we decided to go with sensors that record light intensity, temperature, relative humidity, and soil moisture.
A data logger and sensors deployed under tree canopy in 2 of our sub plots at Dupont SF.
We are interested in teasing out just what our hemlock saplings are experiencing from season to season. This study is concerned with getting hemlock back on the landscape after we get a handle on that pesky hemlock woolly adelgid. What matters more to our trees? The amount of light they are exposed to? The competing vegetation surrounding them? The lack (or presence) of browsing mammals? Conditions in the soil? And so on...
A re-purposed planting pot serves as a hat to protect our precious data logger.
Our truck parked on a forest road with one of our "cut" plots in the background.
What a great place to work and a fantastic time of year! Which reminds me, get all your fall color updates here for optimal leaf-looking.
