Temperature Probe Creation

Here we are soldering the wire for the temperature sensors to the sensor itself. We have 50 temperature sensors at all different depths across the field site, which means a lot of soldering! We were able to get all 50 sensors wired up and waterproofed this past week. The next step is to test the temperature sensors in the water bath and then package them for deployment.

Mathilde the new Crow lab intern from AgroParisTech France soldering the sensors and Katherine a MESH lab student looking on and giving gudiance.

A sensor in the process of being soldered

Katherine and Mathilde demonstrating the concentration needed for soldering these tiny sensors!

A finished soldered probe ready to be waterproofed