New ideas and insight often require new data and observations. Sometimes those observations require the development of entirely new measurements. In other cases, the breakthrough comes from data that are collected more often, or in more places. We’re taking advantage of the dramatically low costs of embedded computing and ubiquity of cellular data to extend the footprint of environmental observation. A few years ago, part of this effort was spun out of the University by Adam Wolf and Ben Siegfried and now operates as Arable Labs, Inc..
News and Updates:
NASA Jet Propulsion Lab SURP grant received
PhD student Cynthia Gerlein-Safdi was recently awarded a 1-year award from the NASA Jet Propulsion Lab’s Strategic University Research Partnership program!
Cynthia Gerlein-Safdi receives Mary and Randall Hack ‘69 Graduate Award
Cynthia Gerlein-Safdi just got awarded the Mary and Randall Hack ‘69 Graduate Award by the Princeton Environmental Institute
Article published in Remote Sensing of Environment
A new article was published by the Stephanie Debats and members of the CaylorLab in Remote Sensing of Environment.
Arable featured in PAW
The Caylor Lab and Arable were recently featured in an article from the Princeton Alumni Weekly Magazine.
Elliot Chang’s thesis published in RCMS
Elliot Chang‘s senior thesis on a new method to remove organic contaminants from water samples for isotope analysis was featured today on the CEE department’...
First course on UAS for environmental monitoring
Last week Lyndon Estes and Kelly Caylor were in Italy to help teach a new course on UAS for Environmental Monitoring.
Interview in Scientific American
While at the AAAS conference, Kelly was interviewed by Kerry Klein for Scientific American.
PulsePod wins third place at the Keller Center’s 10th annual Innovation Forum
Kelly recently received the third place for the PulsePod at the Keller Center 10th annual Innovation Forum.
AAAS Session on New Earth Observing Methods
Lyndon Estes and Kelly Caylor recently came back from San Jose, where they attended the AAAS 2015 Annual Meeting to convene a session on ‘Advances in Earth O...
Summer in the lab: foliar uptake in Colocasia esculenta
This summer, Cynthia Gerlein-Safdi and her intern Craig Sinkler spent the summer in the lab in Princeton to conduct an experiment looking at foliar water upt...
Stephanie Debats receives Mary and Randall Hack ‘69 Graduate Award
Stephanie Debats just got awarded the Mary and Randall Hack ‘69 Graduate Award by the Princeton Environmental Institute.
PulseLab in California and New Mexico
Group members went out to California in June to install sensors in agricultural fields with the goal of realtime monitoring of crop growth and microclimate i...
First successful copter flight for Eric Principato
Eric Principato is starting to work in the Caylor Lab as the lab mechanical engineer for Dr. Lyndon Estes.
Elliot Chang receives Smith-Newton Scholarship
Elliot Chang</a>‘s project, The Use of Alginate and Chitosan to Purify Leaf Distillates of Organic Contaminants has been selected for support from the ...
First International Workshop on Advances in Observations, Models and Measurements Techniques of Atmospheric Water Vapor Isotopes
Cynthia Gerlein-Safdi gave a presentation at the First International Workshop on Advances in Observations, Models and Measurements Techniques of Atmospheric ...
Adam’s interview by the Center for Data Innovation
Adam presented a talk to Strata NYC last week.
Visit by Dr. Thomas Fuchs, JPL machine learning expert
We had the pleasure of hosting Dr. Thomas Fuchs from the Jet Propulsion Lab on October 2nd and 3rd.
Two JPL SURP grants received
We are very proud that we were recently awarded two separate 1-year awards from the Jet Propulsion Lab’s Strategic University Research Partnership program!
First International Conference on Global Food Security
Stephanie just came back from the 1st Global Food Security Conference, held in Noordwijkerhout, The Netherlands from Sept. 29th to Oct. 2nd.
Jackie’s summer featured on the frontpage of PU website
Jackie Jones, a rising senior at Lawrenceville High School, spent her summer working with Adam on photosynthesis of different species.
Lab summer plans
What are the members of the lab up to this summer?
Article published in Geochemica et Cosmochimica Acta
An article written by Lixin Wang has been published in Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta.
Two articles published in Ecosphere
Two articles authored by members of our lab are appearing in the March 2013 issue of Ecosphere, a relatively new on-line only and open-access journal publish...
Article accepted in JGR-Atmospheres
Stephen’s article, ‘Error estimates in the assessment of the isotopic composition of surface fluxes: A direct comparison of techniques using laser-based wate...
Article accepted in Vadose Zone Journal
A review article led by Keir Soderberg on methods for soil water vapor isotopic characterization and analysis has just been accepted for publication in Vados...
Article accepted in Water Resources Research
A research article written by Trenton Franz et al., has been accepted for publication in Water Resources Research.
Article accepted in Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
A research article written by Lixin Wang, Stephen Good, Kelly, and Lucas Cernusak will soon appear in the journal Agricultural and Forest Meteorology.
2nd Mpala-based COSMOS probe now calibrated
Our 2nd COSMOS probe is now operational at our flux tower site located at the Mpala Research Center in central Kenya.
COSMOS soil moisture probe now operational at the Mpala Research Center
Our first of two COSMOS probes (and the first probe deployed in Africa) is now operational at our flux tower site located at the Mpala Research Center in cen...
Princeton Grand Challenge Interns, Summer 2011
From June through August 2011 the Caylor Lab in Kenya hosted three undergraduate interns from the Princeton Environmental Institute’s Grand Challenges Intern...
Article accepted in Water Resources Research
An article authored by Trenton Franz in collaboration with Lizzie King on the use of EMI has been accepted for publication in WRR. Kelly and David Robinson (...
Article published in Vadose Zone Journal
An article authored by Trenton Franz in collaboration with colleagues at Princeton and Rutgers has been published in Vadose Zone Journal.
Quantifying transient soil moisture dynamics using multi-point direct-current resistivity in homogeneous sand
*Franz, T., Nolan, J., Nordbotten, J., Caylor, K.K., Slayter, L. (2011) “Quantifying transient soil moisture dynamics using multi-point direct-current res...
Article accepted in Vadose Zone Journal
A research article by PhD student Trenton Franz has just been accepted for publication Vadose Zone Journal.
Article published in Geophysical Research Letters
An article authored by Lixin Wang has been published in Geophysical Research Letters. The manuscript provides an experimental verification of the utility of ...
Mpala Research Center Flux Tower Operational
Our NSF-funded ecohydrological observatory is now up an running at the Mpala Research Center in central Kenya.
Evapotranspiration experiment at the Biosphere 2 facility
During Sep 18-Oct 29, 2008, Lixin Wang stayed at Biosphere 2 (University of Arizona) to collaborate with Juan Villegas, Travis Huxman and David Breshears in ...
Caylor lab receives LEEF III Award
Li-Cor Biosciences has awarded the Caylor Lab with a Li-Cor 6400XT Photosynthesis Analyzer system to support inquiry-based learning in Princeton’s Undergradu...
Articles published in Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
Two articles by our group on sap velocity measurements have been published in the March 2009 issue of Agricultural and Forest Meteorology.
David Robinson visits the Princeton Ecohydrology Lab
The Ecohydrology lab group was pleased to host David Robinson for a visit to Princeton University.
New experiment begun on subsurface water redistribution
Ph.D. student Trenton Franz has begun a new experiment to investigate the potential of sub-surface gravity driven mounds to contribute to hillslope water bal...
Article accepted in Rapid Communications of Mass Spectrometry
Our group’s first manuscript using the LGR Water Vapor Isotope Analyzer has been accepted for publication in the journal ‘Rapid Communications in Mass Spectr...
Invited talk at the 2008 Soil Science Society of America
Kelly was invited to give a talk at the 2008 SSSA Meeting in Houston, TX.
Water vapor isotope observations at the Morgan Monroe State Forest
During July 5-Sep 5, 2008, Lixin Wang worked at Morgan-Monroe State Forest Ameriflux tower site.
Arable featured in PAW
The Caylor Lab and Arable were recently featured in an article from the Princeton Alumni Weekly Magazine.
Interview in Scientific American
While at the AAAS conference, Kelly was interviewed by Kerry Klein for Scientific American.
PulsePod wins third place at the Keller Center’s 10th annual Innovation Forum
Kelly recently received the third place for the PulsePod at the Keller Center 10th annual Innovation Forum.
PulseLab in California and New Mexico
Group members went out to California in June to install sensors in agricultural fields with the goal of realtime monitoring of crop growth and microclimate i...
Adam’s interview by the Center for Data Innovation
Adam presented a talk to Strata NYC last week.