Announcement:
Fog Tree is being constructed
Announcement:
Event takes place at 160 Farm Rd, Santa Cruz, CA 95064
Please RSVP to pweiss@ucsc.edu
The Fog Tree Trunk has been set in concrete at the LifeLab garden
Thanks to Lizette (and her dad) and Alan for the hard work. Now we install the branches and strands.
The first stage of building the Fog Tree at UCSC LifeLab
The Fog Garden
We have collected 46 gallons of water since Jun 15 (61 days). It’s only 0.11 L/m2/d, far below the threshold for a fog supersite (~1 L/m2/d). Santa Cruz is in a partial fog shadow due to the southerly exposure to the ocean. Northwest is the best. Despite the reduced liquid water content of the air, we have collected enough water to make a meaningful difference in the growing of our vegetable garden.
Fog collection totals 6/15/23 to 8/15/23
176 liters or 46 gallons! This was collected on 26m2 of mesh area over a period of 61 d, resulting in fog deposition flux of 0.11 L/m2/d
Impressive fog harvesting volumes 8-8-23
Field testing the Autonomous Fog Collector
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.