tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-361774122009-04-14T13:48:18.954-07:00Experiments in the Chihuahuan DesertLara Reichmannnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36177412.post-37154046898613118652007-06-07T09:17:00.000-07:002008-12-08T17:50:38.466-08:00Irrigating the desert<div style="text-align: left;"> <div style="text-align: right;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_tDlyBidv3mU/RmgznL03DPI/AAAAAAAAABM/Xh7Nx1pOQ04/s1600-h/riego+Mayo+07+002.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_tDlyBidv3mU/RmgznL03DPI/AAAAAAAAABM/Xh7Nx1pOQ04/s320/riego+Mayo+07+002.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5073361728515280114" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"> <div style="text-align: left;"> </div> The irrigation system consists of 1000 m of PVC piping, ball valves and sprinklers.<br /></div> </div><br /></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> </div> <div style="text-align: right;"><br /></div> <div style="text-align: right;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_tDlyBidv3mU/RmgyIr03DNI/AAAAAAAAAA8/rofUW728TvM/s1600-h/riego+Mayo+07+021.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_tDlyBidv3mU/RmgyIr03DNI/AAAAAAAAAA8/rofUW728TvM/s320/riego+Mayo+07+021.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5073360105017642194" border="0" /></a> </div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_tDlyBidv3mU/RmgzoL03DQI/AAAAAAAAABU/Udgh0oWMOBE/s1600-h/May+07+024.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_tDlyBidv3mU/RmgzoL03DQI/AAAAAAAAABU/Udgh0oWMOBE/s320/May+07+024.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5073361745695149314" border="0" /></a> </div><br /><div style="text-align: right;"> <div style="text-align: left;"> We drive a water truck to the exclosures after it rains to add 50% and 80% water to the target plots.<br /></div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_tDlyBidv3mU/RmgyJb03DOI/AAAAAAAAABE/os-2dJti0-s/s1600-h/riego+Mayo+07+027.jpg"><br /></a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36177412-3715404689861311865?l=laruch.blogspot.com'/></div>Lara Reichmannnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36177412.post-1165451557596855592007-06-06T16:57:00.000-07:002008-12-08T17:50:38.690-08:00Installing the rainout shelters- November 2006<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_tDlyBidv3mU/RmdJ1b03DJI/AAAAAAAAAAc/8IAJw1iPYGI/s1600-h/shelters+004.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_tDlyBidv3mU/RmdJ1b03DJI/AAAAAAAAAAc/8IAJw1iPYGI/s320/shelters+004.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5073104687607516306" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_tDlyBidv3mU/RmdIOr03DII/AAAAAAAAAAU/44VXtbhauqU/s1600-h/backto+PVD+009.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_tDlyBidv3mU/RmdIOr03DII/AAAAAAAAAAU/44VXtbhauqU/s320/backto+PVD+009.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5073102922375957634" border="0" /></a>With the LTER's crew help, we successfully installed 48 rainout shelters.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/1410/4038/640/982619/shelters%20011.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; float: right;" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/1410/4038/320/61335/shelters%20011.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://picasa.google.com/blogger/" target="ext"><img src="http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif" alt="Posted by Picasa" style="border: 0px none ; padding: 0px; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial;" align="middle" border="0" /></a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36177412-116545155759685559?l=laruch.blogspot.com'/></div>Lara Reichmannnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36177412.post-1161468995683844372006-10-21T14:58:00.000-07:002007-06-07T14:06:28.651-07:00The First one! A prototype of the rainout shelter<span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Friday, October 20th.<br />It was around 6.30 pm when we put together the first rainout shelter.<br /><br /></span><br /><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1410/4038/640/OCT06%20field3%20004.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; float: right;" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1410/4038/320/OCT06%20field3%20004.jpg" border="0" height="180" width="243" /></a><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 102, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span> <a href="http://picasa.google.com/blogger/" target="ext"><img style="border: 0px none ; padding: 0px; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial;" alt="Posted by Picasa" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif" align="middle" border="0" /></a> <a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1410/4038/640/OCT06%20field3%20013.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; float: right;" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1410/4038/320/OCT06%20field3%20013.jpg" border="0" height="233" width="316" /></a><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1410/4038/640/OCT06%20field3%20005.jpg"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; float: right;" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1410/4038/320/OCT06%20field3%20005.jpg" border="0" height="172" width="246" /></span></a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36177412-116146899568384437?l=laruch.blogspot.com'/></div>Lara Reichmannnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36177412.post-1161127908587237102006-10-17T16:30:00.000-07:002008-12-08T17:50:39.219-08:00The bending process<span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">We needed to bend 700 acrylic bands for the rainout helters.<br />The bands are 2.5m long, and we had to bend 700.<br /></span><br /><p><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1410/4038/1600/OCT06%20055.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; float: right;" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1410/4038/200/OCT06%20055.jpg" border="0" /></a></span></p><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_tDlyBidv3mU/RmdMeL03DMI/AAAAAAAAAA0/Rq7XYWWVbhI/s1600-h/acrylic06+008.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_tDlyBidv3mU/RmdMeL03DMI/AAAAAAAAAA0/Rq7XYWWVbhI/s200/acrylic06+008.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5073107586710441154" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_tDlyBidv3mU/RmdLkb03DKI/AAAAAAAAAAk/nl0vWdzedik/s1600-h/acrylic06+002.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_tDlyBidv3mU/RmdLkb03DKI/AAAAAAAAAAk/nl0vWdzedik/s320/acrylic06+002.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5073106594572995746" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_tDlyBidv3mU/RmdLkr03DLI/AAAAAAAAAAs/tir6AJZ5wmo/s1600-h/acrylic06+010.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_tDlyBidv3mU/RmdLkr03DLI/AAAAAAAAAAs/tir6AJZ5wmo/s320/acrylic06+010.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5073106598867963058" border="0" /></a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36177412-116112790858723710?l=laruch.blogspot.com'/></div>Lara Reichmannnoreply@blogger.com0