Emmanuel Kendle working on the 2019 Seedling Census
Jamilex Cuevas working on the 2019 Seedling Census.
Ashley Cable and Michelle López Lorenzo working on the 2019 Seedling Census.
Tamara Heartsill presents multiple research projects in the Luquillo Experimental Forest during the LTER Science Council Visit. - May 15 2019
Tana Wood presents post hurricane results to LTER Science Council at Sabana Field Research Station Visit. - May 15 2019
Megan Berberich plucks roots.
Robin Reibold works on nutrient extractions.
Left to right: Armin Howell, Megan Berberich, Robert Tunison, Veronica Lourich, plucking roots.
Aura Alonso setting up the warming.
Helena Kleiner cleans the heaters for maintenance.
Aura Alonso hits the power button and we are warming again!
Plot 4 before and after repairs. Damage from both hurricanes, and how it looks now.
Plot 5 before and after repairs.
Plot 2 before and after hurricanes. The first picture was taken 3 years ago!
Tana Wood is in charge of nutrient extractions.
Kyle is terrorized by the amount of data entry in his future.
Yet another ingrowth core campaign of course!
Virginia-Rose Seagal, Aral Greene, and Rob Tunison sorting roots.
Megan Berberich doing nutrients extractions.
Intern Carolina May collecting a core at one of the plots.
Intern Aral Greene and volunteer Marguerite Kinsella sorting roots.
Full oven! Roots getting dried out.
Root pluck during the September 2018 ingrowth core campaign.
Plot 1
Plot 6
Plot 1 Control plotAmazing understory growth!
Damages to the Sabana Field Research Station
Plot 4 after clearing all the debris. We have a lot of work to do...
Hurricane Maria devastation in El Yunque National Forest.
Amazing view of the El Yunque forest canopy taken from the TRACE tower.
Taking down an experiment can be harder than setting up!
Michigan Tech team ready to start the TRACE canopy warming experiment.
Inspections of TRACE infrastructure are conducted every week.
PIs and project manager super excited to be conducting the first warming experiment in a tropical rainforest.
Sabana Field Research Station has never looked Better.
Area for the base of the tower.
The completed tower will be used to study the temperature threshold of tropical foliage along the height of the trees.
Molly Cavaleri came back from Michigan Tech to supervise the tower installation.
There are no adult trees inside the plots, so the lichen was surveyed in some of the trees surrounding the plots.
Aura continues on her own to extend the lengths of the soil moisture sensors.
Lichenologist Joel Mercado and botanist Chris Bonefont visit TRACE to conduct a preliminary lichen survey.
Working in the Bisley canopy tower.
Molly Cavaleri with Ariel Lugo
The Michigan Tech team visits TRACE for a week of pre-treatment sampling. Welcome Alida, Molly, and Kelsey!
Beach after party
TRACE team excited to start our yearly soil core campaign inside the plots
Summer volunteers Bella and Brian are excited about working in the tropics!
Goodbye party for Brian! We were sad to see him go!
Using the LI8100 to take soil respiration measurements inside the TRACE plots
The core is brought from the study site and our volunteer, Sean Reynolds, gets the sample out.
What a team!
The crew for the pre-treatment soil core campaign.
Joanne Childs, Jeff Warren, and Rich Norby are selecting eight adult trees to install sapflow sensors.
Nice work team!
The group from ORNL is back again. They just can't stay away from our awesome study site!
Daniela and Carlos Estrada work on grounding the datalogger station.
Thank you Bruce!
Bruce Kimball is here to configure the heaters and set up our understory weather and datalogger station.
Our awesome volunteers setting up the frames that are going to be attached to the heaters.
The control plots are ready!
The heaters have arrived!
Rich Norby is ready to practice making the hole for the minirhizotron tube.
Rich Norby from Oakridge National Lab is here to collaborate with TRACE and advise on minirhizotron installation.
Loading up the equipment to take to El Yunque National Forest.
Carlos Estrada removing the solar panel from the canopy tower.
Power line construction
Sasha Reed conducting late night sample filtering
Sasha Reed, "Welcome to TRACE!"
Power lines are extended from the research station to the warming plots in the forest.
The construction crew is here!
Tana Wood drills holes in aluminum angle iron
View from the Bisley Canopy Access Tower.
Bruce Kimball cuts galvanized steel posts
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