Date Field Exercise
9/1 1: meteorological instrumentation survey
9/8 2: temperature and moisture transects
9/15 3: the radiation balance (shortwave and longwave
fluxes)
9/22 4: evapotranspiration (Penman – Monteith)
9/29 5: streamflow (calculating stream volume)
10/6 6: soil moisture (environmental controls on soil
moisture)
10/13 7: measuring precipitation (rain gauges and Doppler
radar)
10/20 8: geophysical methods I: high-resolution
marine techniques (CHIRP sonar)
10/27 9: geophysical methods II: high-resolution
land techniques (ground penetrating radar)
11/3 10: field surveying methods
11/10 11: geologic subsurface sampling (vibracoring or
hand-augering)
11/17 12: geologic surface mapping (identifying rock
formations in the field
12/1 13: presentation of geologic data (maps and map
preparation)