Fog harvesting season has begun

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!

End of Fog Season 2022

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.

Environmental Toxicologist Peter Weiss-Penzias and UCSC undergraduate student Zack Bethel check their Fog Collector at the UC Santa Cruz Farm. (Shmuel Thaler – Santa Cruz Sentinel)
Environmental Toxicologist Peter Weiss-Penzias, left, and UCSC undergraduate student Zack Bethel head back to the lab after checking the fog collector at the UC Santa Cruz Farm. Weiss is studying how much water can be captured from the fog as we are confronted with water shortages with an increase in climate change. (Shmuel Thaler – Santa Cruz Sentinel)
Mesh captures moisture droplets at the fog collector at UC Santa Cruz. (Shmuel Thaler – Santa Cruz Sentinel)
The large fog collector at the UC Santa Cruz Farm is reflected int he sunglasses of environmental toxicologist Peter Weiss-Penzias. (Shmuel Thaler – Santa Cruz Sentinel)
Environmental Toxicologist Peter Weiss-Penzias. (Shmuel Thaler – Santa Cruz Sentinel)