Instrumentation & Measurements
The WEO is comprised of several instrumentation networks, described in detail below, that can be enhanced by measurements using relocatable, high-precision hydrologic and atmospheric observation equipment (Fig. 4). Example deployable equipment includes scintillometers, ground penetrating radar, neutron and time domain reflectometry, cosmic ray probes for biomass and soil moisture, lysimeters, collars for sampling gas flux from soils, hydrologic sondes, automated water samplers, portable trace gas infrared analyzers, and portable aerosol spectrophotometers. The WEO also includes databases with high resolution LiDAR data and long-term records of environmental monitoring (e.g., isotopes, weather, atmospheric trace gases and chemistry, water quality). WEO resources are augmented by hydrological, meteorological, and ecological infrastructure managed by the USGS, US Department of Agriculture National Resource Conservation Service (NRCS), National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON), Inc., Utah Department of Transportation (UDOT), and Salt Lake County.