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<\/a>What an awesome day, it was my first time out on the field with my mentors! We were just doing a little recon for one of several of our research sites. We did\u00a0about a 6-mile roundtrip\u00a0hike\u00a0to Upper\u00a0Gordon Gulch, which is part of the Boulder Creek CZO,\u00a0and got to use my Mini Disc Infiltrometer which will tell me hydraulic conductivity for unsaturated soil. But there is some serious talk about building our own single ring infiltrometer\u00a0to use for\u00a0on different sites\u00a0which will have a larger radius\u00a0and be able to tell us infiltration of\u00a0saturated and unsaturated soils.<\/p><\/div>\n
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<\/a>Had to fix of our markers for the Gordon Gulch site and learned how to use an app to mark our coordinates (GPS Essentials).\u00a0Went over\u00a0the data I collected\u00a0 with my mentor this morning and\u00a0now have a rough idea how long it will take to get a full set of data for the Gordon Gulch north and south sites. Approximately it will be a 10 hour day if I want to collect at both sites in Upper Gordon Gulch which I plan on getting done Tuesday of next week.<\/p><\/div>\n
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<\/a>Setting up my Decagon Mini Disc Infiltrometer for the first time at our north site of Upper Gordon Gulch.<\/p><\/div>\n
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<\/a>Collecting data at the south site of Upper Gordon Gulch yesterday.<\/p><\/div>\n
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<\/a>My mentors Ryan Webb and Anna Hermes of INSTAAR CU Boulder. Multitasked a bit on our recon mission…after checking out our soil sites, Ryan checked on a few of his flagged points along the creek with his infrared camera on the way back down the mountain. The camera shows the cold spring water flowing from ground water into the warmer stream. Pretty cool to see the mixture of water temperatures through an infrared camera.<\/p><\/div>\n
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<\/a>The stream was a little cloudy<\/p><\/div>\n
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<\/a>Lots of shooting stars and lilies along the creek in Gordon Gulch<\/p><\/div>\n
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