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Grant Wiseman Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada Another hot and dry week here in southern Manitoba has us missing the rain just a little bit. We have experienced a very nice dry down cycle in weeks 3 and 4 after a wet up period initially in weeks 1 and 2. By all accounts this will contribute […]

Narendra Das Jet Propulsion Laboratory I am signing off from SMAPVEX12 at Winnipeg with good vibes, pleasant memories and expectation that this will be a very successful campaign. I hope that, like me, most of my teammates have learnt substantially about the study area and had a great field sampling experience, and have also made […]

On June 29, 2012, a long-lived, fast-moving windstorm blew over the eastern United States. The storm started in northwestern Indiana and, over the next 10 hours, traveled roughly 600 miles (1,000 kilometers) toward the East Coast. Wind speeds matched those of an EF-1 tornado in places. The storm uprooted trees, damaged homes, smashed cars, downed […]

A  new video series from the National Research Council  summarizes what scientists have learned about global warming and climate change.  It’s difficult to pack decades of complex research into short video snippets, but the makers of these videos have done an excellent job. As you watch, keep an eye out for mentions of the key […]

Grant Wiseman Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada Week 3 provided 7 days of much needed sunshine allowing for a study-site-wide dry down of soils and a significant increase in crop growth. Field crews were able to collect vegetation samples twice and soil moisture measurements four times! For more information, visit the SMAP Notes from the Field […]

Active since 2006, Batu Tara continues to puff away. A thin volcanic plume streams northwest from the cloud-shrouded volcano. The Advanced Land Imager (ALI) aboard the Earth Observing-1 (EO-1) satellite collected this natural-color image on June 21, 2012. NASA image By Jesse Allen and Robert Simmon using EO-1 ALI data.

Jacqueline Freeman Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada Here are some photos from my veg team. They were taken today and show just some of the activities we perform during a vegetation sampling day. The first image is of Saeid and myself measuring crop height and diameter and recording all of the info onto a field sheet. […]

Eni Njoku Jet Propulsion Laboratory We are finally looking at a dry spell weatherwise for the next several days. The forecast is for clear weather (started yesterday) that should last through the coming week. PALS and UAVSAR had flights yesterday and today. Tomorrow (Sunday) there will be no flights, and then we plan to fly […]

Congratulations to Alexandre Mathieu for being the first person to correctly identify our Satellite Puzzler from last week. We posted a full caption that explains the image in our Natural Hazards section yesterday, and it appeared at the top of our site as the Image of the Day on June 21st. The image above is a […]

Grant Wiseman Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada Field teams had another successful week despite the weather still not living up to Manitoba’s famous warm sunny summers. The question on everybody’s mind is not if it is going to rain tomorrow but when? Week 2 contained two full soil sample day efforts, four vegetation collection days, the […]