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

Check out this new feature on the AmeriFlux website. You can now request populated BADM templates for tower sites. To make a request: From the Data menu, choose Download Data…. 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