[CED/CD/EAT] Fwd: Natural Resource Users Law and Policy Center

[Silvertooth, Jeffrey C - (silverto)]

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From: Thomas Reynolds <tomrinazca at waterbalance.net<mailto:tomrinazca at waterbalance.net>>
Date: March 9, 2017 at 8:40:15 AM MST
To: "Silvertooth, Jeffrey C - (silverto)" <Silver at ag.arizona.edu<mailto:Silver at ag.arizona.edu>>
Subject: RE: Natural Resource Users Law and Policy Center

Jeff,

I am considering hosting an interactive science booth at the Earth Day 2017 event in downtown Phoenix.

I wish to either show, how 1) subscribing to community solar energy (cooperative?) could reduce GHG/GW in a growth chamber, with living turf, bees and butterflies, lessens ascending of chamber temperatures, as visitors "vote for solar", or 2) comparisons of leaching fractions necessary, under a 80% irrigation efficiency and 92% irrigation efficiency, using Cl- ISE....if I can get a couple of them.

Do you recall any "science lab" apparatus' that could be loaned that would demonstrate applied agronomy, plant-soil-water relations?

It has to be just scientific enough to convey fundamental principles, without physically resolving the complexities, if you catch my meaning.  I don't want a model that doesn't work.

Could be fun.  I can build almost anything, and there is time to create a mini-life chamber, I think... The leaching columns....: a tall column of light soil medium can still become heavy to transport....and must not topple onto a visitor.  Sensors and sensor meters?  Those are all science-grade, and very expensive, no?  I own a little hand-held Cardy EC meter and NO3-N meter.  Maybe those would suffice.....need to make sure they are operable as they sit idled.

I also have a large, 60-year-old weighing scale that crudely measures mass.  I also can get my hands on an Ohaus triple-beam scale.

Thanks,

Tom Reynolds

From: Silvertooth, Jeffrey C - (silverto) [mailto:Silver at ag.arizona.edu]
Sent: Friday, March 3, 2017 9:54 AM
To: Thomas Reynolds <tomrinazca at waterbalance.net<mailto:tomrinazca at waterbalance.net>>
Subject: RE: Natural Resource Users Law and Policy Center

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Tom Reynolds, Irrigation Specialist
Tempe, AZ
(602) 463-5072
www.waterbalance.net<http://www.waterbalance.net>
Serving AZ and CA since 1989

"Monitoring is the environmental counterpart to financial accounting and reporting. It is logically part of the ordinary cost of doing business." - Kai Lee

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