Media Category: Blog Photo

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Similar plot photos in different growing season at one of the CRP sites, Curtis, in 2021. Notice that the right photo has cheatgrass infestation later in the season. Photo Credit: Lauren Porensky, Kristina Guarriello & ARS Team.

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Picture 2: Olivia Hajek (left), Kathy Condon (middle), and Matt Sturchio (right) at the Central Plains Experimental Range in Nunn, CO. Pictured behind is a drought shelter, used to reduce precipitation in drought field experiments.

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Picture 1: Experimental plots for assessing legacy effects of an extreme wet year (taken in May 2023). The closest plot (bottom right corner) shows extra leaf litter leftover from increased biomass from a simulated extreme wet growing season in 2022. Other plots in the background with metal borders were watered in 2023 to simulate an extreme wet growing season – and we can use the combinations of previous and current extreme wet years to find evidence of legacy effects.

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Image 3: Estimated secondary organic aerosol formation potential in Los Angeles from various sources. VCP sources (outlined in black) contribute 63% of the SOA formation potential, which exceeds the contributions from fossil fuel sources. Image modified from [8].

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D5-siloxane concentration as a function of time of day in Toronto. The spike the morning correlates with the peak morning commute time. Image modified from [7]

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