Environment Knowledge Base

Even one small oversight, such as poor installation, can compromise accuracy by up to +/-10%. How can you ensure your data represent what’s really happening at your site?

4 short videos teach you what you need to know to become a HYPROP wizard.

Site disturbance matters—and there are ways to reduce its impact on soil moisture data. Find out what installation techniques and best practices can set you up for success.

In 2007, METER scientists developed a Thermal and Electrical Conductivity Probe (TECP) probe for NASA’s Phoenix Scout Mission, which landed on Mars May 25, 2008. The solar-powered lander collected data for five months until the sunlight waned, ice took over, and communication ceased.

As water resource management grows more complex, the cost of water increases and humanity’s food consumption soars to an all-time high, optimizing crop yields through efficient irrigation is becoming crucial.

Climate change models predict earlier snowmelt and rainstorms that will be less frequent and more intense. What does this mean for the Utah Wasatch Plateau?

Six short videos teach you everything you need to know about soil infiltration and measuring saturated and unsaturated hydraulic conductivity.

Six short videos—everything you need to know about how to nail your GDD predictions.

Irrigated land accounts for 40% of our food supply, and salts impact yields on about one-fifth of those acres.

If you’re not measuring water potential, or not measuring it correctly, your data could be telling you the wrong thing. Water content measurements can only tell you so much, and inferring water potential from water content is inaccurate at best, and completely misleading in worst-case scenarios.

To get the most out of your data, you need to know how to interpret unexpected occurrences in your data set.

As world water demand increases and supplies decrease, how can we turn more of the water we use for agriculture into biomass?

Should you be measuring water content or water potential? Like all good scientific questions, the answer is, “It depends.”

25 years ago Drs John Norman and Gaylon Campbell co-authored An Introduction to Environmental Biophysics. Their ability to work across disciplinary lines brought new understanding to countless scientists and taught us how to conduct better research through collaboration.

Champions of water potential, Drs. Kim Novick and Jessica Guo, team up to discuss the vital role water potential measurement plays in both plant and soil sciences and the work they are doing to establish the first-of-its-kind nationwide water potential network.

In this Office Hours Q & A session, join research scientist Leo Rivera and application expert Chris Chambers as they tackle your toughest water potential measurement questions. 

Learn which soil water content measurement method is right for your application in this live Q&A session with our science and product experts.

Learn soil moisture release curve measurement methods, best practices, applications, and more in this live Q&A session with our science and product experts.