Forest Flows has started its second aerial campaign collecting remote sensing data!
October 31, 2022
This spring campaign, led by The University of Auckland's Dr Delwyn Moller, provides key soil moisture and forest canopy data from various sites across NZ. Remote sensing data are collected when the forested catchments are wet (spring) and dry (late summer) to prov...
Wireless soil moisture sensor deployment at Riverhead Forest
September 29, 2022
Last week, Research Leader Dean Meason worked with The University of Auckland colleagues installing Massachusetts Institute of Technology / USC SoilSCAPE wireless soil moisture sensors (https://soilscape.usc.edu/) at Riverhead Forest for the Rongowai...
Thanks to the tireless work of Scion and NIWA field teams, Forest Flows has now 4 of the 5 primary research sites up and running! It is providing real time, big data data on water use, water retention, and water release from planted forest catchments in r...
2nd primary research site sensor network is now live
November 16, 2021
Scion's FlowLab IOT wireless sensor network for the 2nd primary research site is now live! It is providing real time data for the Forest Flows Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment Endeavour programme.Once fully operational, the FlowLab wireless meshed ne...
"Generation One" Tree Ecophysiology Sensor Network
October 27, 2021
In this video a Scion Field Technical Officer is working at "Generation One" Tree Ecophysiology Sensor Network. This network of 270 electronic dendrometers, 28 sap flow flux sensors, and 15 soil moisture sensors was established in a radiata pine "Accelerator Trial"...
FlowLab datalogger rollout suspended
October 27, 2021
NZ's COVID-19 Lockdown has suspended Scion's FlowLab datalogger rollout for the Forest Flows Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment Endeavour programme. However, we were able to get a partial IOT wireless sensor network operational at one site. It is ...
Locating research sites across New Zealand
October 25, 2020
Over the last three months, the Forest Flows team have travelled throughout New Zealand to locate research sites for forest flows. With our NIWA colleagues, and thanks to the landowners and managers, we have located all five research catchments in the Northland, Auckland, Ma...
First field trip to Ashley Forest
October 4, 2019
First field trip for Forest Flows programme to Ashley Forest by some of the Scion (including Dr Amanda Matson) and members of the team from NIWA. The trip served as an opportunity for the team from two New Zealand Crown Research Institutes (CRI's) to come together ...
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