Fog Water Harvesting Solutions for Coastal California
The Peter Weiss-Penzias Lab at UC Santa Cruz * image below by Anja Ulfeldt*
The AFC v 1.0 is being field tested at the Whale Point meteorological station at Big Creek Reserve. This device senses environmental conditions including visibility with a MiniOFS to detect fog events, open the doors to the chamber, and turn on the fan which pulls fog across the strands.
Amazing view from the Whale Point Cabin and meteorological state at the Landells-Hill Big Creek Reserve. Filmmaker Kyle Baker and team are working on a film called Fog Eaters and getting footage of our research team installing our equipment.
The Fog Squad has set up 2 large fog collectors at the UCSC Farm for the 2023 fog season
Phil Grote is a student working on the fog harvesting project funded by the UCSC CarbonFund.
We are getting real-time fog collection data. This figure shows the mm of water collected over the past week. We had 3 fog events followed by a rain event. All this water is being collected and used to water our plants.
More photos to come!
Lichen are a powerful bioindicator of gaseous mercury emissions from the abandoned mercury mines at the New Almaden Quicksilver County Park.
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Taking down the large fog collector today at the UCSC farm CfA. Here are some pictures taken by Shmuel Thaler, the Santa Cruz Sentinel photographer.
Three mesh panels with three separate rain gauges are installed at the UCSC farm.
Brittney and Peter met USGS, EPA, and other folks at a superfund site to investigate Hg emissions from the abandoned mine.
Results of a pilot study by Peter Weiss-Penzias and Belle Zheng looking at the spatial patterns of THg in four lichen species growing in the vicinity of New Almaden Quicksilver County Park.
