Boyd Deep Canyon Desert Research Center

02 May, 09 AM - 13 May, 04 PM

In what is expected to be the final field campaign for my dissertation research, I plan to conduct a 9-day wetting study in creosote cover on the reserve. I would like to install our trace gas array in the wash area to match other field campaigns I have conducted in creosote; I understand that weather conditions will require a 4WD vehicle and I will come with one. The experimental setup I will take is identical to the study I did in biological crust, where I experimentally add combinations of water, dextrose carbon, and ammonium-nitrate nitrogen to soil plots with creosote cover and sand and then track trace gas C and N fluxes over 45-hour drying periods. I do not have particular plots picked out at this time so am open to suggestions that are in the wash area. In addition to gaseous measurements, I will also collect 5cm diameter x 10-cm depth soil cores that will be processed and analyzed for various pools of soil C and N. I am prepared to take all precautions to comply with social distancing during this time.

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Under Project # 39948 | Research

Seasonal nutrient pulse dynamics in an anomalous desert ecosystem

graduate_student - University of California, Riverside

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Stephanie Piper May 2, 2020 (1 days)
Holly Andrews May 2 - 12, 2020 (11 days)
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