An Integrated Observatory for Redwood Forest Health

Project PI: Housen Chu and Kosana Suvočarev

Co-PIs: Holly Oldroyd, Sebastien Biraud, Kyaw Tha Paw U, Stephen Chen, Troy Magney

Student: Corrin Clemons

Staff Research Associate: Deklan Mengering

Junior Specialist: Jacob Valovich

Funding Source: CAL-FIRE

Duration: July 1st 2023, June 30st 2026

Project description

Our team with careful consideration from several State agencies has developed the experimental observation design to close the gap in the knowledge on redwoods landscape fluxes in the State. We will install two tall towers in early and mid-seral stage forests to monitor long-term carbon and water fluxes and how they change over time under changing climate(i.e. fog decline, droughts, fire risks, etc.). We are actively seeking collaborations for this project in order to secure the long-term observation support.

Project goals

1) Addressing the knowledge gap in ecosystem-level observations in redwood forest, 2) develop information on redwood forests’ carbon-water cycles, climate change, drought, fog impacts, 3) Inform forest management for carbon sequestration and wildfire mitigation, 4) develop new science on eddy covariance over complex terrain.

Measurements:

2 EC towers and auxiliary advection measurements.

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