Penobscot Experimental Forest, Bradley Maine Temperature: 80°F Humidity 74% Wind: 8 mph SW Clear with few clouds From Dr. Ranson: On the way to today’s site we passed a small plantation of American Chestnut trees. They are part of a program run by a nonprofit organization, The American Chestnut Foundation, to restore blight-resistant American Chestnuts […]
Penobscot Experimental Forest, Bradley Maine Temperature: 80°F Humidity 76% Wind: 8 mph SW Clear skies From Dr. Ranson: Today began with a short trip back into time. We wanted to look at a plot in a very old forest that was in preservation. Rick Dionne with the USDA Forest Service and the Chief Forester at […]
Penobscot Experimental Forest, Bradley, Maine Temperature: 70 °F Humidity: 96% Wind: 5 mph Cloudy with scattered showers. From Dr. Ranson: Well, we finally got some rain. It was only about ten minutes and not very intense, but it was rain. The rest of the day was quite overcast but dry. Considering that there has been a […]
Penobscot Experimental Forest, Bradley, Maine Temperature: 85 °F Humidity: 100% Wind: 8 mph S Overcast From Dr. Jon Ranson: Yes, I know today is Saturday, but North Woods work doesn’t care about the calendar. The plots took a long time to measure yesterday and we didn’t get our daily hectare finished. We don’t want to […]
Penobscot Experimental Forest Temperature: 81 ° F Humidity: 100% Wind: 4 mph Foggy/Cloudy/light misting rain Dr. Jon Ranson: It’s amazing how different each day is, here in the North Woods. Early this morning there was this little mist falling. Everything was kind of soft and mysterious. Then the rain stopped and it turned awfully humid with no wind […]
Penobscot Experimental Forest, Baxter, ME Temperature: 82 ° F Humidity: 68% Wind: 2 mph SW Sunny From Dr. Ranson: Something has been puzzling me the last few days. We’ve been out in these woods all day every day, but we’re just not seeing much wildlife. This is the wild North Woods, home to moose and […]
Penobscot Experimental Forest, Bradley ME Temp: 88 °F Humidity 65% Wind: 14 mph WSW Partly Cloudy From Dr. Jon Ranson: Today we worked hard at Penobscot, finishing the plot we started yesterday and then we laid out and measured another entire one-hectare plot. I hear they made good progress in Howland, too. So we’re on track […]
Penobscot Experimental Forest Temp: 91 °F (record 92 °F, 1987; average 78 °F) Humidity: 51 % Wind Speed 14 MPH Partly Cloudy From Dr. Jon Ranson: I’m a tired puppy right now. We started early today and put in a long, long day. We got a lot of measurements done. It’s delightful to be here […]
Penobscot Experimental Forest, Bradley ME Temperature: 89 ° F Humidity: 73% Wind: Calm Hazy, hot and humid From Dr. Jon Ranson: Greetings from Maine! The North Woods are fabulous as always and I’m excited to be here again. I’ve been coming to Maine for field work since 1989 so when I see these forests, it’s […]
Biographies Dr. Jon Ranson is an earth scientist specializing in radar, lidar and remote sensing. He uses these tools for studying vegetation type and biomass in ecosystem research. He is NASA Goddard Space Flight Center DESDynI Lidar Project Scientist and Head of the NASA GFSC Biospheric Sciences Branch in Greenbelt, Maryland. Under his guidance the […]
