Final forest leaf litter collection, collected screens, bungees, and clips, flipped over traps - Brian, Slater

LTAR December soil sampling - Slater, Brian, Andie, Mae

LTER lysimeter leachate collection - Andie, Slater

LTAR 28 gas sampling - Olivia, Mae, Brian, Andie (Hydrosense)

Evacuate LTER lysimeters - Alyssa, Olivia, Brian, Mae

LTAR gas chamber prep - Andie, Trajana

Measure T5 poplars - Andie, Trajana, Brian, Mae

Scale-up soil sampling in switchgrass (L2, M3) - Todd, Chris?

Collect LTAR leachate - Mae, Trajana

LTER Series 14 gas sampling, first for winter so no T7 microplots, T8, prairie strips, CF or SF - Brian, Slater, Olivia

Collect leaf litter from CF, DF, SF traps - Mae, Trajana, Brian, Slater, Olivia

Bases installed on Lux Prairie and holes augered on Lux corn (base placement tomorrow). KK, DW, ER, JR.

Evacuate LTAR lysimeters - Brian, Trajana

LTER gas chamber prep for first winter sampling - Slater, Mae

LTER Hydrosense for Series 14 - Andie

Measure poplar trees in G8, random subset of 10 trees per plot - Brian, Andie

BCSE Hydrosense for Series 18 - Andie

BCSE Series 18 gas sampling (Hydrosense tomorrow) - Brian, Trajana

GLBRC Scale-up soil sampling (all but L2, M3 switchgrass plots), ten cores per station, stations kept separate - Todd, Chris

Collect leaf litter from traps in T5, G8 and remove those traps from the fields and put them into storage; Collect leaf litter from CF, DF, SF traps -

Collect LTAR leachate -

LTER Resource Gradient soil sampling, 4 cores per plot (2 within and 2 between winter wheat rows), avoiding edges, sampled at Phil’s request for CN only -

LTAR Series 27 gas sampling -

Evacuate LTAR lysimeters -

Install GLBRC Scale-up station flags in L1, M1, L3, M2 (not switchgrass) -

LTAR gas chamber prep - Trajana, Mae

Fill SWF deep core holes - Brian, Andie, Stacey

Moved sensors on T7_R2 REX to the switched power SW1 and increased the cycle time to 10 minutes in order to try to reduce the battery drain as we go into the winter.

Finish threshing LTAR canola (soybeans and wheat finished yesterday), then shell and shred LTAR corn - Olivia, Trajana, with Josh Dykstra

Shell and shred G1 corn - Slater, Mae, with Ethan and Jarrod

LTAR November soil sampling (3 0-25cm cores per station, for extraction, moisture, A&L S1 analysis, and archive) - Alyssa, Andie, Brian, Mae, Slater, Trajana

Replace BAU1, BAU2 station flags - Slater, Trajana

Thresh LTAR soybean, wheat - Brian, Andie with Josh Dykstra

Thresh LTER REX and BCSE soybeans - Alyssa, Mae with Ethan and Jarrod

LTER Post-harvest Extensive Grid soil sampling. Cores (0-25cm) taken in 5 East/West transects (avoiding sampling in the station flag walkways) using station flags as approximate guides for transects. 4 cores taken from each transect, 20 total cores per plot composited in 1 bag. T1-5 sampled. T5 was sampled using station flag locations in adjacent plots, not the condensed set-up present there. T6 is typically sampled but those plots haven’t been harvested. T6 sampling will come after harvest. - Alyssa, Brian, Slater, Trajana, Mae

Collect leaf litter from T5, G8, and forest traps - Brian, Slater, Andie

Collect LTAR leachate - Trajana, Mae, Emily, Olivia

Evacuate LTAR lysimeters - Mae, Trajana, Brian, Emily

Finish clipping ASP3 -

LTAR Series 26 gas sampling - Alyssa, Brian, Emily, Andie (Hydrosense)

MLE MC Lake City soil sampling - Todd, Chris

ASP2, ASP3 end of season plant sampling. All stations: 2mN, 0.5mW to SE corner of 2 x 0.5m frame, oriented with the 0.5m ends on the east and west. Sorted plants later in the field lab: MEDSA, TRFPR, CICSP, LOLMU, DACGL, BRSNA (live volunteer canola ) and the remainder UNSRT. - Emily, Brian, Trajana, Mae, Slater

LTER soil sampling - Alyssa, Slater, Trajana, Mae, Olivia

LTAR gas chamber prep -

MLE MN Escanaba soil sampling - Todd, Chris

BCSE Subplot soil sampling… This includes G1 non-stover removal area; G2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9 unfertilized area; G8 historically unfertilized area (south end, between 1st and 2nd rows); and G10 fertilized area. Nine 0-25cm cores from each area, along a diagonal transect within each subplot. When a row crop had been present then alternated coring between row and within row. No samples taken from the previously sheltered area in G5. - Alyssa, Brian, Slater, Trajana, Mae

Help David Lowry’s lab sample switchgrass - Emily, Andie

Collect LTER leachate - Slater, Emily, Emily, Trajana

Help David Lowry’s lab with switchgrass sampling - Olivia, Mae