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Hillslope Experiment WorkshopsHillslope Design and InstrumentationOver the last six months we have been working on a science plan for what we hope is a true community experiment - it is our intention to renovate a large portion of the Biosphere 2 and initiate a long term experiment focused on the fate of water on landscapes. How precipitation is partitioned upon the land surface into evaporation, transpiration, infiltration, deep percolation, run-off and stream flow is a persistent question. How vegetation dynamics influence that partitioning and how those processes may be altered in a future climate represent important complexities facing our disciplines. Over the past six months, we have reached out to the Hydrology Synthesis effort (see more), and engaged a diverse group of scientists in building the physical and modeling template for our experiment. The design of this experiment is becoming clear - we are going to build replicated, complex land forms with the Biosphere 2 and expose these systems to perturbations of climate and ecology. An ecological question of how communities form and are organized will be overlaid on the hillslope physical template. We are currently working hard at developing the integrated model tools, cyberinfrastructure, and instrument array that will make this project unique in the world. Click on Thumbnails below to enlarge.
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