Field

In spring 2022, Alex set up two eddy covariance towers at the Hellbaum farm to monitor the carbon and water cycles of different fields. As you can see, the wyoming wind can make this work a little difficult…

Soil color can tell us a lot about what going on down there (black for organic matter, red & yellow for iron, white for calcium carbonate…) We dug pits for a research project looking at high-elevation hay meadows and thought about how deep-rooted perennial grasses (like Kernza 🌾!

Taking Kernza biomass samples- shoulda brought a lawnmower

Setting up the first of the meteorological towers! This one will measure an entire suite of environmental drivers to help us compute carbon and water cycling