Chris arrived today and Liz left back to Boulder. We didn’t get together much, but thanks for the company Liz!
The weather today was unsettled, with periods of low cumulus. Deeper cumulus persisted over the SY mountains throughout the day, making visiting any of the ridge sites potentially perilous. There were no new data or sensor issues this morning and I had meetings, so Chris and I decided not to visit any sites today. Chris spent the afternoon configuring some of the spare sensors that he brought from Boulder and I recorded yesterday’s dried soil samples. I also purchased a replacement 9V battery for the scale in the base trailer. We still need to collect a 2nd round of soils from 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, and 17 - as well as measuring boom angles at the same (except 12).
There were a lot of short outages across the domain today, which I suspect to be due to the weather. I noted that S1, S6, S8, S10, S11, S12, and S13 were all down on Nagios at various times of the day, but all have come back since.