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UPCOMING WEBINAR: Water Potential 201: Getting the Most From Each Measurement Knowing your soil’s optimal water potential levels and taking measurements over time is crucial to understanding the health of your plants and to predict soil water movement. But why stop there? While water potential is powerful on its own, there is even more insight to be gleaned when it's applied to other calculations. In this 30-minute webinar, research scientist and METER’s Director of Scientific Outreach, Leo Rivera, dives deeper into soil water potential, applications of the measurement, and how to make sure you are making the most of the tools available. Within this webinar he will discuss: -Using water potential data to infer other processes and properties in soil -The resources available to determine the right water potential ranges for your plants -How to choose the right water potential sensor for particular applications -How to minimize the possibility of preferential flow -The difference between soil water potential and plant water potential and when to measure each -And more Register here: https://lnkd.in/grQTA2dV

NEW: ATMOS 41W now comes with Wifi! The ATMOS 41W all-in-one remote weather station is one of the world’s few truly wireless weather stations, and it’s the most affordable research-grade station in its class. It’s robust, reliable, and simple to use. All of the telemetry is enclosed with an integrated cell or Wi-Fi module. But that’s not even the best part. There is nothing on the market that is easier to install. Put it in a backpack, take it to your site, secure it to a post pointing North, and walk away. It’s that easy to start broadcasting real-time data directly to the cloud. Check it out here: https://lnkd.in/gmd44T6R #weather #weatherstation #innovation

Measuring the soil-plant-atmosphere continuum across Australia comes in a wide variety of applications thanks to the wildly differing landscapes. No one knows more about these scientific efforts than Dr. Michael Forster, the founder of Implexx Sense and Director at Edaphic Scientific and a senior adjunct research fellow at Griffith University in Queensland. In this episode, we talk with Michael about everything from plans for an underwater cable to transmit power to Singapore across more than 2000 miles of seabed, environmentally friendly mining practices, and the fate of endangered frogs and birds. Listen to the full podcast episode here: https://lnkd.in/gRzmbbXN #soil #plantlife #environment #podcast

Colorado’s Saving Tomorrow’s Agricultural Resources (STAR) program provides a voluntary way for farmers and ranchers to assess their conservation efforts and impact on soil health. Creating a large-scale agroecosystem management comes with many funding and logistical tribulations. In this podcast, we talk to the founders of this program, Drs. Jim Ippolito and Steve Blecker, about what impacts soil health, how it’s measured, and the hope of a nationwide soil health rating scale. Listen to the full podcast: https://lnkd.in/eApH3vuZ #soil #soilhealth #environment

Congratulations to Charles Soucey, winner of the 2024 G.A. Harris Fellowship! Charles studies Hydrogeology at the of University of Minnesota. Proposal Title: Understanding the fate and transport of salt and nitrate in triple porosity karst systems What makes you most excited about your upcoming research project? "The opportunity to work with rural communities to better understand nitrate dynamics in the subsurface is extremely exciting and important for protecting both subsurface and surface water resources. Our project in SE Minnesota will allow us to provide a community with useful information about karst watershed contaminant dynamics, whilst also allowing us to pursue fundamental research into mechanisms leading to contaminant storage and release in carbonate aquifers. The electrical conductivity probes and data loggers provided through the G.A. Harris Fellowship will allow us to gather a much wider spatial dataset than we would have previously been able to measure. These instruments will provide the first remote sensing data available in our watershed, allowing for real-time tracking of nitrate dynamics in response to changing climatic conditions." Learn more: https://lnkd.in/gRceJsTM #environment #grant #research #UMNProud

Screening for drought tolerance in wheat species is harder than it seems. Many researchers face confounding issues with soil type, moisture content, and genetic differences. However, researcher Andrew Green's innovative pilot study offers a promising solution. Green, alongside Dr. Gerard Kluitenberg and Dr. Allan Fritz, is pioneering a method to isolate drought stress using precise soil moisture monitoring. Their goal is to create a repeatable screening system to ensure true drought responses before integrating genes. Learn more about this exciting research and its potential to revolutionize wheat breeding: https://lnkd.in/dN3rP-J6 #Agriculture #Research #DroughtTolerance #Innovation

Champions of water potential, Drs. Kim Novick and Jessica Guo, team up to discuss the vital role water potential measurement plays in both plant and soil sciences and the work they are doing to establish the first-of-its-kind nationwide water potential network. Join their discussion to understand how a communal knowledge of these measurements could impact what we know about climate change and ecology as a whole. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/gwmgSTjZ #waterpotential #water #soil #innovation

Knowing your soil’s optimal water potential levels and taking measurements over time is crucial to understanding the health of your plants and to predict soil water movement. But why stop there? While water potential is powerful on its own, there is even more insight to be gleaned when it's applied to other calculations. In this 30-minute webinar, research scientist and METER’s Director of Scientific Outreach, Leo Rivera, dives deeper into soil water potential, applications of the measurement, and how to make sure you are making the most of the tools available. Register here: https://lnkd.in/grQTA2dV #webinar #soil #water #waterpotential

Enjoy near-real-time, accurate water potential data with minimal maintenance. Designed for reliability, the TEROS 32 features a robust, highly precise pressure transducer and virtually indestructible construction, ensuring dependable performance in any weather. Upgrade to the TEROS 32 to experience seamless, efficient, and precise water management. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/g-DGH7_z #precisionag #agriculture #waterpotential #innovation

Ecosystem services—the physical processes performed by soils within an ecosystem—are well-known in agricultural settings, but how do we define and measure them in urban settings? Join Dr. Sara Acevedo, assistant professor at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, as she explores what it takes to measure the metals and other contaminants left in soil by human activity, the effect of soil homogeneity in an urban landscape, and to extend these studies out into areas of human development that have been ravaged by wildfires. Listen to the full podcast episode: https://lnkd.in/gXyitYn4 #soil #urbanlife #innovation #podcast