SUNY ESF
Protocol Catalog
Root coring
| Document Description | File Name | Last Updated (Date) | Last Updated by: |
| Protocol for root coring (google doc) | 8/23/2022 | Scott Dai |
Shooting Leaves
| Document Description | File Name | Last Updated (Date) | Last Updated by: |
| ESF requirements to purchase ammo and Adam Wilds notes on shooting | ESF_requirements_purchase_ammo.docx | 2016 | |
| Matt't tips for working in the field in cold/wet condtions | Tips for field work in cold-wet condtions.docx | 3/10/19 | Matt Vadeboncoeur |
| Crew survival guide | Shoestring Survival Guide | 6/1/16 | Craig See |
Site Maintenance
| Document Description | File Name | Last Updated (Date) | Last Updated by: |
| Sap flow battery charging instruction | Battery Charging Instructions.docx | 6/11/19 | Alex Rice |
| Tree ID hardwoods | Site_Maintenance_MELNHE_Plots_Wild_8_17_15.docx | 8/17/15 | Adam Wild |
Field Measurements and Collections
| Document Description | File Name | Last Updated (Date) | Last Updated by: |
| Fertilizer weight calculations | MELNHE fertilizer calculation (2019)_DH.xlsx | 5/21/19 | Dan Hong |
| Litter baskets | Protocol for Emptying MELNHE Litter Baskets.docx | 11/5/16 | Gretchen Lasser |
| Soil sampling procedure for microbial respiration | Soil Horizons.pptx MicResp2013.doc (see below for net mineralization) |
9/6/15 | Melany Fisk |
| Tree ID hardwoods | tree identification.hardwoods.january 2013_2.pdf | 1/16/13 | Peter Smallidge |
| Fertilization methods and notes | Fertilization Methods and Notes 2011-2013.docx | 11/18/14 | Adam Wild |
| Sap sampling methods | 3/30/14 | Adam Wild | |
| Litter hammocks | How to hang litter collection nets.docx | 9/26/14 | Biche/Vadeboncoeur |
| Step by step instructions for seedling germinant inventory (to be superseded by the instructions included with data, when data are posted) | Seedling work July-Aug 2013_Revised_SG.docx Survivor count questions-sg-7-17-13.pdf |
7/11/13 | Shinjini Goswami |
| Tree ID hardwoods | tree identification.hardwoods.january 2013_2.pdf | 1/16/13 | Peter Smallidge |
| DBH Ruler template, scaled by Brendan Finney using McNeel's Rhinoceros 4.0, after Bella 1968 | DBH ruler | 5/31/12 | Carrie Rose Levine and Brendan Finney |
| Soil pit notes and instructions | Soil Pit Instructions 2010.doc Soil Pit Instructions.doc (2003) Soil Pit General Notes.doc Soil Pit Field Notes.doc |
2010 8/5/2003 |
Corrie Blodgett Noam Ross |
Sapflow
| Document Description | File Name | Last Updated (Date) | Last Updated by: |
| How to make reference sap flow sensors | HowtomakeReferenceSapFlowSensorsGeneralProtocol.docx (generated from the working googledoc on 12/18/15) | 12/18/15 | RAHSS team |
| sapflow methods from Pam Templar's lab | Granier Sapflow Sensor Construction Protocol Pam says: We started with Nathan’s packet and then expanded upon it to include as much detail at every step possible. Please let me know if you have any questions. I hope you find this to be helpful! (Note: document refers to to Nathan's packet, see next link down) |
Pam Templar | |
| Sapflow methods from Nathan Philips |
Nathan's Sacred Sap Flow Package.pdf Nathan: Attached is a file (with an audacioius name I didn't bestow on it!) which which contains all my notes on the method. The TC construction part is on pages 20-21 of the pdf. I think it's pretty self-explanatory and easy to understand, but let me know if your students have any questions. |
Nathan Phillips | |
| Methods for 2014 Sapflow measurements | Sap_Flow_2014_Methods_6_18_2015_Harrison.docx | 6/18/2015 | Sophie Harrison |
| Advice for future sap flow measurements following 2014 | Sap_Flow_Advice_from_2014_6_18_2015_Harrison.docx | 6/18/2015 | Sophie Harrison |
| Converting Sap Flow Data logger data to useable excel data. | Sap_Flow_Converting_Campbell_Datalogger_Files_to_Excel_Files_6_18_2015_Harrison.docx | 6/18/2015 | Sophie Harrison |
| Allometry chart from Adan Hernandez on sapflow depth and DBH. Can be helpful for sizing sapflow sensors. | leaf and sapwood allometry excercises C2 - Use for sapflow sensors.xlsx | 12/30/2015 | Adam Wild |
What to do with those samples once they are back in a lab?
| Document Description | File Name | Last Updated (Date) | Last Updated by: |
| Steps in processing samples: grinding, digesting and running ICP | GrindAshDigestICP_revisedFebruary2022.docx | February 2022 | Jenna Zukswert |
| Seeds Sorting Protocol | 7/12/18 | Adam Wild | |
| Arthropod Sorting Methods |
See also: Mite Identification Sheet.pdf prepared by Theo, and Roy Norton's Mite Handouts.pdf |
1/28/15 | Theo Campbell |
| Leaf Sorting | Leaf ID.pdf | 2/18/19 | Kim Badger |
| Leaf Herbivory |
Leaf Scoring Protocol for C7 leaves.docx C9 Score sheet revised.xlsx |
7/2/15 | Kara Phelps |
| Root picking (Protocol, and comparison of picking roots for 30 minutes vs longer periods) | RootPickingforsamples12or6cmdiameter.docx (generated from the working googledoc on 12/18/15) Root picking protocol by Kikang 2011.doc *Stephanie has been charged with updating, using some notes from Ruth and Brannon. 30 mins roots.xls |
12/18/15 10/1/13 |
RAHSS team Kikang Bae |
| Soil Texture or Particle size distribution | SoilTextureorParticleSizeDistribution.docx (generated from the working googledoc on 12/18/15) |
fall 2015 | RAHSS team |
| Processing power-cored samples in Bartlett (need version for HB/JB without fungi analysis) | process of soil&root analysis_after kikang review.doc | 2/26/15 | Lin Liu |
| Net N mineraliation |
Fisk, MC, and TJ Fahey. 1990. Nitrification potential in the organic horizons following clearfelling of Northern hardwood Forests. Soil Biol. Biochem. 22(2): 277-279 Fisk&Fahey90.pdf Fisk, MC, DR Zak, and TR Crow. 2002. Nitrogen storage and cycling in old- and second-growth Northern hardwood forests. Ecology 83(1): 73–87 FiskEcology02.pdf Fisk, MC, TJ Fahey, and PM Groffman. 2010. Carbon resources, soil organisms, and nitrogen availability: Landscape patterns in a northern hardwood forest. Forest Ecol. Manage. 260: 1175-1183 FORECO12241.pdf |
9/6/15 | Melany Fisk |