Field Equipment Showcase
Friday Lab Activity
HOMEWORK #4 IS DUE TODAY AT THE BEGINNING OF CLASS
Outline:
- Practice with geographic positioning technology
Textbook reading:
- none.
Other reading:
- none.
Related web links:
- none.
Local Field Trip: Technology Showcase
We will be working around campus to gain exposure to a variety of measurement and monitoring methods associated with subsurface sediment, groundwater, and land-atmosphere interactions.
Outline:
- Visit Luthin Lab to see misc. sediment samplers and corers
- Russian peat corer, vibracorer, grab sampler, torque sampler,
- Bedload net traps, USGS suspended sediment sampler, alpha sampler
- Secchi disk
- Shear stress and force sensor
- ADCP
- Boats
- Visit Campbell Tract to see:
- Geoprobe drilling rig
- Manual soil augers with diverse bits
- Gas-powered soil augering
- Groundwater well to measure depth to water and collect well water samples
- Visit UC Davis weather station systems
- radiometers
- evaporation pan
- wind speed anemometers
- wind direction
- sunshine hours measurement
- CIMIS weather station
- Dry versus wet atmospheric deposition
- Bowen ratio method for determining ET
- Lysimeters
- Begin field work on large class project
