The purpose of this field trip is to introduce students taking Geography 175 to the Micromet tower deployed at Coal Oil Point. Students will learn about the observations/instrumentation. Next, students will be divided into small teams and trained about vegetation field analysis. Students will work in groups measuring vegetation transects along 6 fixed transects estimating canopy height, measuring species composition, surface albedo and temperature. They will use digital cameras to quantitatively measure fractional cover using a CCD camera and surface temperature with a FLIR. We will likely also include spectroscopic measurements with an ASD. Field measures are a repeat of observations made in 2008, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019 and 2021, providing a time series of change. Another field trip will be scheduled for April 28th.

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