[HubbardBrookISE] ISE Update - Feedback on Plot Location Consent Needed!

Mon May 25 09:49:28 EDT 2015

When the area was first scouted out, I plotted existing/past studies over the area (not plots, but the entire candidate area). There was one  vwide plot on the western edge, and some sugar maple removal from 70s toward the east. If you (matt?) can send me these 'final' plot points as shapefile, I'll make a new figure. That info was probably in hand on the plot layout mission, so unlikely to be conflicts.
Mary

On May 25, 2015 9:13:06 AM EDT, Timothy James Fahey <tjf5 at cornell.edu> wrote:
>Wow, fabulous work! It's a relief that you were able to site the plots.
>Do any of them overlap with valley wide plots? If so, I should talk
>this over with John Battles - I'm not too worried about it.
>"Rustad, Lindsey -FS" <lrustad at fs.fed.us> wrote:
>Dear ISER’s,
>Lots happening in the field! A summary is below:
>
>1.        We have located ten plots that meet most of our plot
>criteria..  Attached are two maps (plots on LIDAR; plots on Google
>Earth) showing how the plots fit in this area.  The plots are 20 x
>30-m, (with an inner 10 x 20-m study plot, subdivided into 8 5 x 5-m
>plots),  with a minimum of 10 m between plots.  Access to the plots
>from the road, and access to the Hubbard Brook from the plots are good.
>Them maps and additional photographs of the plots are also included in
>the ISE Site Search pdf that is attached.
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>2.       A closer survey of the vegetation turned up more sugar maple
>than originally noted.  Attached is a spreadsheet showing the dominant
>and co-dominant trees on the plots and in the inner study plot.  For
>the inner plots, we have 1-8 sugar maple on each plot, 1-7 red maple on
>all plots but one, and 1-5 yellow birch on 8 of the 10 inner plots. 
>For the two with no yellow birch on the inner plots, there is yellow
>birch in the buffer zones.  All plots have a consistent understory of
>American beech and hobblebush.
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>3.       Scott Bailey came out with us on May 20.  Soils are mostly
>some variant of Spodosol, with the anticipated variation between pits
>and mounds and presences of current and buried tip ups.  The O is
>remarkably deep (10-20 cm), sometimes with A transition in to B, and
>sometimes with abrupt but intermittent E’s.  One plot, 8, closest to
>the valley bottom,  has much finer textured  silt soils.  It is
>somewhat of an outlier, but we do not have more space in that area to
>move the plots.  Scott will provide more official notes next week.
>
>4.       Attached is also a map of ISE Instrumentation to show how our
>various destructive and non-destructive sampling fits into an idealized
>sub-plot.  We have laid thisout on the floor at the Peirce lab and it
>is busy but doable.
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>5.       Kudos to Geoff Schwaner, Amey Bailey, Scott Bailey, John
>Campbell, Matt Vadeboncoeur,  Ian Halm, Don Mower Frank Bowles, and
>Wendy Leuenberger for many hours and days locating and relocating plot
>corners and identifying trees and soils!
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>6.       LET US KNOW IF YOU NEED MORE INFORMATION ON THE PLOTS OR HAVE
>CONCERNS ABOUT THIS LOCATION.  MY PERSONAL 2 CENTS IS WE HAVE AN IDEAL
>SPOT FOR THIS EXPERIMENT.  DISCUSSIONS WITH OTHERS WITH EXTENSIVE
>KNOWLEDGE OF THE HUBBARD BROOK LANDSCAPE HAVE FAILED TO COME UP WITH
>SUGGESTIONS OF OTHER PLACES FOR US TO CHECK OUT.  BUT WE WANT TO HEAR
>FROM YOU TO KNOW IF YOU HAVE WORRIES ASAP or by end of day on
>Wednesday, May 27th.  We are marking corners now, but will not install
>anything until June 3 or 4th.
>
>
>
>7.       We have hired a crew of 5 for the summer, with additional help
>from ‘floaters’, Charlie’s post doc, and several interns and volunteers
>from the University of Southern Maine.  Geoff Schwaner is the field
>crew leader, and you can direct questions to him as needed at:
>gwj4 at wildcats.unh.edu<mailto:gwj4 at wildcats.unh.edu>.  Geoff will be
>with us throughout the year, and will also oversee fall and winter
>sampling and activities.  Geoff has worked for us in past summers, and
>spent the last year, basking in the sun at the Luquillo Experimental
>Forest in Puerto Rico working for Bill McDowell,  The suggested
>calender of activities is attached.
>
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>8.       The ‘Away Team’ of Sarah and Stacie started last week, under
>John Campbell’s able guidance.  They are busy figuring out protocols,
>finding sites on maps, ordering supplies, and did one site visit last
>week with the FS scientist who set the plots up 17 years ago.
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>9.       Charlie and I (and a cast of individuals from FS and Syracuse
>Sponsored programs) are working on finalizing budgets and setting up
>subawards and agreements.
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>10.   All documents listed here are in the ISE Dropbox.  If you do not
>have access to this Dropbox let me know ,and I will add you.
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>11.   I filled out my registration for the HB meetings and put in an
>abstract for a 10 minute slot for the iSE.  We can coordinate the talk
>as we get closer.  We would also like to hold an ISE meeting on the
>plots during that week, and will suggest times shortly.  I will also
>send out a doodle poll for  times for a team conference call in June.
>
>
>Feel free to reply to this with an update of your own activities!
>
>
>Best,
>Lindsey and John
>
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>Lindsey Rustad, PhD
>Research Ecologist
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>Northern Research Station
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>[Forest Service Shield]
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>Lindsey Rustad, PhD
>Research Ecologist
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>Forest Service
>Northern Research Station
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>p: 603-397-7406
>c: 603-397-7406
>lrustad at fs.fed.us<mailto:lrustad at fs.fed.us>
>
>271 Mast Ave
>Durham, NH 03824
>www.fs.fed.us<http://www.fs.fed.us>
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