Sagehen Creek Field Station

28 May, 03 AM - 02 Jun, 10 AM

A team of six pricipal investigators from Berkeley has recently received a major grant from the W.M. Keck Foundation to develop and demonstrate new measurement techniques for hydrological research. Part of this new "Keck Hydrowatch Center" involves establishing prototype instrumentation testbeds in the Sagehen Basin and in the Elder Creek Watershed at U.C.'s Angelo Coast Range Reserve. The proposed instrumentation systems will include high-frequency sampling of soil moisture, sapflow, atmospheric humidity, groundwater levels, precipitation and streamflow chemistry, and the isotopic composition of precipitation, streamflow, and atmospheric humidity. These instruments are proposed to be linked by wireless embedded networks, with real-time data streaming via the internet. The details of the instruments and their deployment are currently under discussion. At Sagehen, the current design involves spatially dense sampling over steep environmental gradients (such as changes in slope, aspect, ground cover, or groundwater supply from seeps and springs). The major deployments are expected to be within wireless range of the existing weather stations, which can serve as the backbone for the network. For the first year, we expect that the major development and deployment activities will be located near the field station itself, with further deployments to more remote locations in the basin once the systems can be shown to be reliable.

Visit #10114 @Sagehen Creek Field Station

Approved

Under Project # 6805 | Research

Keck Hydrowatch Center -- hydrometerological instrumentation testbed

faculty - University of California, Berkeley

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Group of 3 Graduate Student May 28 - Jun 2, 2006 (6 days)
James Kirchner May 28 - Jun 2, 2006 (6 days)
James Kirchner May 28 - Jun 2, 2006 (6 days)

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Burnside Cabin (Upper Camp) 5 May 28 - Jun 2, 2006
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