Field trips (Check the site information out before the trip)

If there are problems with the schedule contact Jesus (Done-Pending). Also, the duties will be changing frequently and have a due date.

1. Sunday, April 1 (departure 7:30 am) MRO, ABQ (Nature Center), and San Acacia (Alfalfa) [Hernan, Rodger, Kanayo, and Kim]
2. Saturday, April 7 or Sunday April 8 (departure 7:00 am) Sevilleta DGPS survey [Hernan, Rodger, Kanayo, and Kim]
3. Saturday, April 7 or Sunday April 8 (departure 7:00 am) To take down El Malpais site [Jesus, Hernan, Rodger, Kanayo, and Kim]

Recurring

• Check new LAS data:
  • Infer which site visit occurred from field report. Download these new data from laptop, archive, and analyze on the desktop.
  • Every Monday and Friday download remotely accessible data
• Update EDAC ftp site with new data

Other

• Email new biomass heat storage calculation to both Jans and Sung-Ho
• Debug cellular modems MRO (Cable 25ft is broken)
• Take down Scintec scintillometer at Alfalfa (All Group)
• EMRTC: XLAS setup (At the beginning of Summer)
• Estancia basin transect (Permit in process)
• POWER PROBLEMS
  • Decrease transmitter power at all sites, such that signal strength = 50
  • Set San Acacia Alfalfa to long range

Kim

• Get 135 lab organized: maps (due February 9)
• Take backpacks back to the gym (due ASAP)
• DGPS: Sevilleta
• Make a shape file with all the scintillometer sites (ask Jesus) (due February 20)
• Get batteries from ABQ, reset data loggers and recharge batteries
• Make a digital record of the field visit logs recollected until today and continue updating it (This is the new format FieldVisitLog.xls) ( due February 20)
• Call El Malpais people before April 7.

Rodger

• Get 135 lab organized: maps (due February 9)
• DGPS: Sevilleta
• Setup HOBOS at MRO
• Organize all DGPS data in a spreadsheet [X Y Z] (all the data is in a Folder named "Raghav" on the 135 Lab Computer) [Rodger and Hernan] (due February 15)
• Enter the old Sevilleta transects to the GPS (due February 9)

Hernan

• Setup HOBOS at MRO (Contact Rodger and Jesus)
• Download data from field laptop (goes to UCSD) (Ask Jesus how to do it) (due February 9)
• Get batteries from ABQ and reset data loggers
• Organize all DGPS data in a spreadsheet [X Y Z] (all the data is in a Folder named "Raghav" on the 135 Lab Computer) [Rodger and Hernan] (due February 15)
• Process data from last campaign and change demod reference values for realigned transects (contact Jesus; due February 15)

Jesus

• Get ECH2O-TE manual from http://www.decagon.com/manuals/ECHOTEman.pdf and obtain conversion equations to get physical values out of the voltages measured by the sensor (e.g. soil temperature in degrees Celsius) . Revise scint.m to compute and plot these physical values (due February 10)
• Test rain gauge on CR1000 in lab (ask Jan to send you a data logger program) (due February 15)
• Estimate new effective heights
• Modify scint.m for radiation and temperature analysis (due February 10)
• Process data from last campaign and change demod reference values for realigned transects (due February 15)
• Buy a new 25 pin serial cable for wireless connection at MRO