Video here, after a day or so https://vimeo.com/44587971

weather station is here: http://www.wunderground.com/weatherstation/WXDailyHistory.asp?ID=KLASLIDE15&day=23&month=06&year=2012

Although I think the wind was blowing to the west...

Too bad about the balloon, but more importantly it's great to see progress on this front! Nice work.

photos of the bayou rebirth replanting of this site in 2009. neither Spartina nor Scirpus took, but Typha recolonized? this area. or were planted.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/eustatic/3453959944/in/photostream/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/eustatic/3505431964/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/eustatic/3505432080/

I am interested in repeating this H2S measuring procedure with some modifications. Hydrothermal vents have been suggested as point sources, but I've noticed that this experiment takes place in a marsh. I'm assuming from my reading that this experiment is measuring H2S produced by anaerobic degradation of plant material by bacteria. What is a good set of criteria for identifying a wetland that will produce high amounts of H2S? Can you point me to any papers on this subject? I live in the San Francisco bay area, so there may be many opportunities if brackish marshes can exhibit this behavior.

copying my mailing list comment back in here:

too interesting a conversation to pass up even on a holiday :-)

so i'm interested in triangulation -- like, how can we independently verify that there is H2S at a test site? I have an electronic H2S sensor connected to an Arduino, and i recently got a temperature/humidity sensor (since the H2S sensor is temp/humidity sensitive too) to correct the H2S readings. I also got a little SD card holder/writer for the Arduino, so I could put together a little package that records H2S and logs the results, for comparison with the strips. Then we'd at least have 2 separate readings of the site. Also:

1. the H2S sensor I have can only detect like 5 ppm minimum (i think, i'll have to check again) so it's interesting to compare this to either the strip sensitivity or that of the human nose (0.3ppm, see [1] below) . Or the max safe exposure level -- say, 15-20ppm see [2] below.

2. though this'd be an interesting comparison and a great way to gain confidence in the strip technique, we shouldn't take for granted that the digital sensor is "better" or even particularly authoritative

I may have time on Thursday to try to throw something together and mail it, unless someone else wants to take a crack at it (i could send the parts over?)

Jeff

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Links:

[1] http://publiclaboratory.org/notes/warren/9-26-2011/when-hydrogen-sulfide-concentration-reaches-approximately-15-ppm-human-nose-b [2] http://publiclaboratory.org/notes/warren/9-6-2011/hydrogen-sulfide-detection-fart-detector

Jeff, would be excited about a sensor.

I don't think wetlands get above 5ppm...

but eventually we want to target Murphy refinery down the way, so...this sensor would be useful!!

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