Environment Monitoring
A weather station was set up as part of the VEMO (below) to monitor a range of environmental parameters that are used to interpret long-term biological changes. The station overlooks lava flows formed in 2010 and the caldera. In addition, the field site contains a diversity of independent permanent temperature loggers to monitor conditions within different lava flows.
- The weather station monitors the following parameters:
- Temperature (air, surface, interior of surface rock, 45 cm depth)
- Relative Humidity
- Snow depth
- Wind (direction and speed)
- Photosynthetically Active Radiation (PAR)
- Ultraviolet radiation (UVA and UVB)
- Soil moisture at 10 cm depth
- Precipitation
- Field site imagery every 2 hours
IMAGES FROM THE WEATHER STATION
A montage of images taken by the weather station showing the diversity of conditions at the field site. These images have scientific value because they provide information on the types of atmospherically derived microbial input into the lava flows. They can be correlated with other weather station data to quantify the different sources of airborne microbial input.
