Office Hours 19: Avoiding common mistakes with weather stations
To get the most accurate atmospheric data for your project, it’s essential to ask the right questions—both about your project’s needs and the weather stations you're considering.
Office Hours 20: Hydraulic conductivity and soil moisture release curves
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Making accurate hydraulic measurements and interpreting the data isn’t always straight forward. Understanding your instrumentation and the expected outcomes before heading to the field makes it easier to get accurate information your project requires.
In this episode, METER application specialists Leo Rivera and Shaun Weldon discuss questions asked by product users when generating soil moisture release curves (SMRC) and measuring hydraulic conductivity. Join Leo and Shaun as they discuss:
- The role does sample prep play in the accuracy of SMRCs
- How is air entry identified on a SMRC
- If the SMRC of higher depths be used to extrapolate the curve of lower depths
- How the Kfs error estimation is calculated by the HYPROP
- How the SATURO takes into account cracks in the soil
- And more
Presenters
Leo Rivera is a research scientist and Director of Science Engagement at METER Group. He earned his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Soil Science at Texas A&M University. There he helped develop an infiltration system for measuring hydraulic conductivity used by the NRCS in Texas. Leo is the force behind application development in METER’s hydrology instrumentation, including the SATURO, HYPROP, and WP4C. He also works in R&D to explore new instrumentation for field measurements of water content, water potential, and hydraulic properties of soil.
Shaun Weldon operates as the SATURO, LABROS, TEMPOS and tensiometer product manager at METER Group. He earned his Bachelors degree in environmental science from Western Washington University, and his Masters degree from Washington State University. He has over a decade of experience helping researchers measure the soil-plant-atmosphere continuum.
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