Although he couldn’t make the installation trip to California, Andrew recently assembled a solar-powered instrument package that includes a data logger, temperature and relative humidity measurements, a PhenoCam and a cell phone modem. George Koch and Drew Peltier hauled the gear to the top of an 80 m. giant Sequoia (Sequoiadendron giganteum) tree near the famed Mariposa Grove in Yosemite National Park. The installation was completed over two days in mid-September. Andrew hopes to visit the site later this autumn. Near-real-time images are available through the PhenoCam web page.
