by David Lipson | Jan 12, 2019 | Fire, Research, Sky Oaks, SMER
Shown above is a remote fire watch system installed at SDSU’s Sky Oaks Field Station, part of a collaborative project involving UCSD, SDG&E and SDSU. Powered by photovoltaic panels and tied into the HPWREN network, the four cameras provide a 360 degree view...
by David Lipson | Jan 12, 2019 | Fire, Global Change, Research, Sky Oaks
Semiarid ecosystems represent a large fraction of the Earth’s surface, and have a strong influence on interannual variability in the global C cycle, despite having relatively low productivity. SDSU Doctoral student, Andrea Fenner, is performing her dissertation...
by David Lipson | Jan 12, 2019 | Fire, Global Change, Plant Ecology, Research, Sky Oaks
SDSU’s Sky Oaks Field Station (SOFS) recently hosted a visit from the DRIVING-C team, who are using drone photogrammetry to measure aboveground biomass in the chaparral vegetation. Drylands play a major role in the global carbon cycle, as these areas are believed to...
by David Lipson | Jan 12, 2019 | Global Change, Research, Sky Oaks, Soils
In collaboration with the Global Change Research Group (GCRG) and Cheryl Kuske at LANL, we studied the effects of free air CO2 enrichment (FACE) on soil fungal communities in a chaparral ecosystem. We found that elevated CO2 increased root production, which led to an...
by pbryant | Feb 20, 2013 | Photographs, Sky Oaks
by pbryant | Sep 8, 2012 | Community, Research, Sky Oaks
Online images can viewed here: http://anr.ucsd.edu/cameras/SkyOaksJR.html
