Forest Ecosystem Science Laboratory
Document Catalog
Data Management
- Label templates (see instructions for mail merge)
- Drying oven forms Contents Recording Sheet
Specific to Ruth's Lab:
- Volunteer sign in sheet revised 11/6/14
- NEW editable format!! Equipment loans and Inventory
- NEW editable format!!Sample Inventory
- Long-term Storage tracking form (xls format; 1 form should be prepared for each box going into "long-term storage)
- ICP Schedule
- Chargeback Tracking Sheet (Soils Lab, ICP, vehicles, photocopying, ITS)--submit monthly when you have A&TS charges!)
- NEW editable format!!Sample Cost Estimator
Tax exempt forms
- Purchases: Research State (Also can get from:
- 501(3)c Form
Sample processing
- Ashing/Digestion procedure--amended by Chuck 10/8/09
- ICP Protocol--revised 3/25/09 by CA Blodgett
- Bickelhaupt, D.H. and E.H. White. 1982. Laboratory Manual for Soil and Plant Tissue Analysis. School of Forestry, SUNY-ESF, Syracuse, NY. (Chuck Schirmer is revising this, and we'll post after he does. In the meantime, see him for a copy of the 1982 manual, or look at the copy to remain in B9 Marshall.)
Procedures
- GrindAshDigestICP.docx Dan Hong 2021
- Acid Washing Procedures Gretchen Lasser 2/2017
- Minirhizotron tube installation.docx M. Lucash 5/2002
- Root picker protocol.docx R. Yanai 7/2002
- Running samples on B.docx
- Solution protocol-date and personnel unknown.docx
Manuals/Directions
- Drying Oven Manual
- Garmin GPS Manual (aka, the "new" GPS unit, transferred to us from Jim Halligan. Jim has another just like this that we can usually borrow.)
- Etrex GPS Manual (aka, the old GPS unit)
- Corer Operating Manual from April Melvin
- Engine Operating Manual from April Melvin
- LI-3100 (leaf area)
- LI8100_LI8150_Manual_Rev3.pdf (Soil CO2 flux)
- Still (now in the Soil Teaching lab)
- Brother laserprinter
Edna Bailey Sussman Foundation proposals
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2012 Craig See
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2017 Yang Yang
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2018 Alexander Young
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2019 Alexandrea Rice
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2020 Thomas Mann
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2021 Joe Nash/Final Report
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2022 Scott Dai
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2022 Jenna Zukswert
Soils Lab Price List--Return to Chuck Schirmer once analyses are complete
ICP
- ICP Schedule
- Gaines, P. ICP Operations: A Guide for New ICP Users. An Inorganic Ventures Publication • September 2003 - November 2004. Available online at http://www.ivstandards.com/tech/icp-ops/
- Boss, CB, and KJ Fredeen.1997. Concepts, Instrumentation and Techniques in Inductively Coupled Plasma Optical Emission Spectrometry. The Perkin-Elmer Corporation.
- Deb's ICP roadshow
- ICP tutorial notes
- ICP Concentration Data Calculation Sheet
- Auto Analyzer
- ICPsolutionTest.xlsx, compares 2008 to 2020 samples solutions, run by Dan Hong, February 2020
R
- Software is freely available from http://cran.r-project.org/
- "An introduction to data analysis and graphics with R" PDF
- A summary of functions used in "An Introduction to Data Analysis and Graphics with R" PDF
PDFs of most of Ruth's publications can be found here: Publications Theses are posted on the data page beneath the section with its corresponding files.