Flux tower installation at Pumphouse floodplain site
Flux tower being installed at the Pumphouse floodplain site.
Tied to the DOE-funded project led by Drs. Reed Maxwell and Dave Gochis (“Diagnosing dominant controls on carbon exchanges in high altitude, western U.S. headwaters”), the long-awaited flux tower was installed at the Pumphouse floodplain intensive study site on April 13, 2017.
Tony Brown (~6ft tall) standing in the 3-meter snow pit at the Upper Subalpine site.
Sampling during peak SWE (Snow Water Equivalent) conditions
On April 2-3, 2017, SFA team members dug snow pits to collect vertically-resolved measurements of snow density and samples for geochemical analysis. Snow depths were ~50% greater than in 2016 at the same time of year.
A video highlighting conditions at the Upper Subalpine site and the headwaters of Rock Creek at the time of sampling is linked below.
Flux tower installation:
Synoptic view of flux tower installation and site conditions and infrastructure:
Upper Subalpine site conditions:
Other site updates
For those who have followed the time-lapse evolution of conditions on Meander A, a video presenting conditions and infrastructure tied to the DOE-funded work of Mike Wilkins (Ohio State) investigating stream bed hyporheic exchange can be found below:
