New Weather Station

Last week, David Simeral and Greg McCurdy from the Desert Research Institute (Reno) were here. We are cooperating in putting up a network of these

new weather stations across the NRS reserves. This was Hastings' turn. Jaime dug out what we thought was a huge hole for the main mast (3'x3'x3') and I helped with the three forms for cement for guy wires (2'x2'x2'). Craig Nowak helped us figure out some details. A mobile mix cement truck delivered the cement and Jaime and the younger set at Hastings finished. On Monday Jan 31, DRI crew installed the instruments. It just figures. That day the transmit side of our internet satellite failed. Anyway, we will soon be online with the rest of the UC Natural Reserve/DRI stations. (http://www.wrcc.dri.edu/weather/).