Research Tools
We use a combination of gas-exchange measurements made at field sites and numerical models that can be run over the entire globe. These models are evaluated at individual field sites as well as at continental scales using remotely sensed observations of growing season length and other vegetation characteristics.
The Soil, Water, and Climate Computing Cluster
We run our numerical model, Agro-IBIS, and analyze data on a Linux computing cluster. This cluster is shared among a group within the department to maximize use and availability. It currently consists of 96 compute cores (12 nodes with 2 quad-core Harpertown processors) with 192 GB of RAM. We currently have 65 300GB SAS hard drives with ~15TB of storage.
Equipment
The Twine Lab is expanding, but currently contains standard lab equipment, two drying ovens, and a portable eddy covariance flux system containing a Campbell Scientific CSAT3 sonic anemometer, a CS7500 water vapor-carbon dioxide open-path gas analyzer, an HMP45C air temperature-relative humidity sensor, near-surface soil temperature probe and REBS soil heat flux plates, and a Kipp and Zonen four-component net radiometer.
