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2013 August Public Field Trip featured in local newspaper

09 Aug 2013
News Source: Mountain Press

Mountain Press covers the 2013 August Public Field trip to the Southern Sierra Critical Zone Observatory site.

On Friday, August 9th, researchers from UC Merced and the USFS Pacific Southwest Experiment Station held a Summer Public Field Tour. The tour topic was "Science and Forest Management in the Mixed-Conifer Forest." SCE Forestry staff, retired and current Forest Service foresters, graduate students, organizations, news media and a member of US Congressman Jim Costa's staff attended. 

For more, see attached article by Thomas Catchpole, Mountain Press, Auberry CA (0.2 mb PDF)

On the first stop of the day, Roger Bales (SSCZO PI) discusses the instruments on the P301 flux tower, which stands more than 160 ft (50 m) tall in the mixed conifer forest. 

 

SSCZO researchers Roger Bales and Matt Meadows explain the wireless sensor network installed at the P301 meadow.

On the first stop of the day, Roger Bales (SSCZO PI) discusses the instruments on the P301 flux tower, which stands more than 160 ft (50 m) tall in the mixed conifer forest. 

SSCZO researchers Roger Bales and Matt Meadows explain the wireless sensor network installed at the P301 meadow.


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SSCZO feature, August 9, 2013
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Mountain Press coverage of the 2013 SSCZO annual public field trip


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