Current Research Projects
- Subject and Investigator
- Annual CO2 balance of various plant communities in the Great Basin – Hipps
- Measurement and models of turfgrass water use in urban areas – Hipps
- Spatial variations of water vapor and CO2 exchanges in an agricultural watershed: integrating turbulence flux measurements with remote sensing data – Hipps
- Combining Lidar and meteorological measurements to estimate the emission of small particulates into the atmosphere – Hipps
Facilities and Instrumentation
- Eddy covariance systems to measure turbulence properties and exchanges of momentum, heat, water vapor and CO2 over various surfaces.
- Light sensors to measure photosynthetically active radiation inside and above plant canopies.
- Net radiometers, soil heat flux plates, soil temperature, and soil moisture sensors. These are used to quantify the flow of energy in the soil and available radiation energy.
- Weather stations that measure atmospheric properties such as air temperature and humidity, solar radiation, and wind.