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661 Soil Moisture: Advances in Design and Development of Water Content, Matric Potential, and Flux Measurement Methods for the Critical Zone: I
(S01 Soil Physics)

Tuesday, 7 October 2008: 8:55 AM
George R. Brown Convention Center, 362F
Presiding:
Scott Jones
8:55 AM
Introductory Remarks
9:00 AM
661-1
Soil Water Content Derived from Frequency-Dependent Permittivity using a Portable Network Analyzer and Open-Ended Dielectric Probe.
Scott Jones, Utah State University; Ricardo Estevez, Utah State University; David A. Robinson, University of the West Indies
9:15 AM
661-2
Investigation Of The Effects Of Soil, Salinity And Disturbance On The Estimation Of Water Content Using A 50 MHz Impedance Sensor.
Tairone P. Leao, University of Tennessee; Edmund Perfect, University of Tennessee
9:30 AM
661-3
Relationship between the Real and Imaginary Permittivities, Temperature and Soil Water Content Measured at 50 MHz.
Mark D. Murdock, ARS; Mark Seyfried, USDA-ARS
9:45 AM
661-4
In Situ Assessment of Heat-Pulse and Thermal Profile Methods for Measuring Streambed Recharge/Discharge.
Francis Casey, North Dakota State University; Tyson Ochsner, USDA-ARS; Dan Jaynes, USDA-ARS; Robert Horton, Iowa State University
10:00 AM
661-5
Numerical Analysis on Averaging Soil Thermal Properties along a Dual-Probe Heat-Pulse Probe.
Kosuke Noborio, Meiji University
10:15 AM
Break
10:30 AM
661-6
Analysis of Coaxial Soil Cell.
Mathew Pelletier, USDA-ARS; Robert Schwartz, USDA-ARS; Steve Evett, USDA-ARS; Bobbie McMichael, USDA-ARS; Robert Lascano, USDA-ARS; Dennis Gitz, USDA-ARS; Jeffrey Baker, USDA-ARS; Paxton Payton, PSGD, CSRL
10:45 AM
661-7
Using Impedance Spectroscopy to Characterize the Moisture in Porous Media.
Martin G. Buehler, Decagon Devices; Douglas R. Cobos, Decagon Devices; Colin Campbell, Decagon Devices, Inc.; Gaylon Campbell, Decagon Devices, Inc.
11:00 AM
661-8
How to Measure Low Matric Potentials with a Combination of Water-Filled Tensiometers and Porous-Matrix Sensors.
W. Richard Whalley, Rothamsted Research; Christopher W. Watts, Rothamsted Research; Gary Lock, Delta-T Devices,; Dick Jenkins, Delta-T Devices, Ltd; Jos Balendonck, Plant Research International B.V.
11:15 AM
661-9
Monitoring the Soil Water Potential with Polymer Tensiometers in Cropped Lysimeters under Water-Stressed Conditions.
Martine Van der Ploeg, Wageningen University & Research Centre; Harm Gooren, Wageningen University & Research Centre; Gerben Bakker, Wageningen University & Research Centre; Gerrit de Rooij, Wageningen University & Research Centre
11:30 AM
661-10
Design Considerations for Water Fluxmeters.
Glendon Gee, Battelle Pacific NW Lab.; Fred Zhang, Battelle Pacific NW Lab.; Jason Keller, GeoSystems Analysis, Inc.; Doug Cobos, Decagon Devices, Inc.; Gaylon Campbell, Decagon Devices, Inc.
11:45 AM
Adjourn
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