Congratulations to Margaret Torn, AmeriFlux Management Project lead PI! Margaret received an honorary doctorate from the University of Zurich last Saturday, in recognition of her efforts to deeper understanding of… More
By Chad Hanson, AMP Tech Team. Many flux sites do not have access to line power, and run on solar power. This post shares my recent experience of building a simple solar system,… More
During this past AmeriFlux PI Meeting, Gil Bohrer and Tim Morin presented a live demonstration of their Portable Canopy Lidar (PCL), shown in Figure 1, which was developed by their… More
Every spring on the Sevilleta grasslands (elevation 5000 ft), strong northeast winds blow the tumbleweeds down the Rio Grande valley. The tumbleweeds stick to anything that stands out—like the AmeriFlux 3-meter flux tower,… More
Good metadata management is especially important when data are shared across a large community. Therefore, AmeriFlux is encouraging all sites to fill out an instrument operations (Instrument_Ops) BADM template within… More
At the 2015 Ameriflux Principal Investigators Meeting in Washington DC, 35 people participated in a World Cafe session to brainstorm about the Next Big Ideas in climate research. Below are listed the… More
At the 2015 AmeriFlux PI Meeting in Washington DC, Tim Morin demonstrated the use of his portable LIDAR gear.
This year’s AmeriFlux PI Meeting (January 29-30, 2015) was held jointly with the NACP PI Meeting. We had 128 registered participants, 48 posters, 3 vendors, 11 science talks, 6 breakout… More
Guest blog by David Moore, who organizes this annual course, with the help of many others. Fluxcourse 2015 – 8th annual summer course in flux measurements and advanced modeling We will… More
Now posted in our Resources, the white paper, “An AmeriFlux network perspective on urban and managed systems,” brings together expertise of the AmeriFlux community to identify gaps and offer recommendations to… More