So far in the New Year we have...

• Switched our cellular transmitters for satellite transmitters on our weather stations.  These transmitters allow us to view our data in "real time". By this we mean that we can look at the data our weather stations are collecting (soil temperature, soil moisture, wind speed/direction, relative humidity, air temperature, photosynthetic active radiation, etc.) every couple hours through the DataGarrison site online.

• Looked at wind sensor problems (wind gust/speed) caused by the freezing rain/snow and looked at different options to resolve this problem (i.e. calling Onset technical support, asking around the department, etc.)

• Gave a representative (Alisha) from the college of agriculture, here at NDSU, a tour of our North Moorhead research site

• Continually processed wireless weather station data to check that sensors are working correctly