Equipment

Laboratory: The laboratory space at the School of Natural Resources consists of approximately 800 ft^{^2} of wet laboratory facilities, a drying oven, glassware, balances, bench space, shelf storage space, and various soil augers. The laboratory can be used to store, prepare, and test instruments before field campaigns, and for any other needed uses. In addition, the lab group will have access to the Soil Hydraulic Laboratory in the Biological Systems Engineering department at UNL, which is capable of retention curve, hydraulic conductivity, particle size, bulk density, and soil moisture analyses.

Computer: In addition to a desktop computer in the laboratory for graduate student use, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln has the Holland Computing Center for supercomputing. The particle transport code MCNPx will be available on the cluster for graduate student use. The MNCPx code will be used to help understand the stationary and cosmic-ray neutron probe instrument response to different field conditions.

Major equipment:

One Dualem 21-S for electromagnetic induction (Dualem): Used to make electrical conductivity measurements.
One archer field computer and GPS (Juniper Systems): Used to log GPS location and integrate Dualem 21-S measurements.
Five stationary cosmic-ray neutron probe (HydroInnova): Used to provide estimates of area-average soil moisture at one location.
One mobile cosmic-ray neutron rover (HydroInnova): Used to provide estimates of area-average soil moisture at many locations.
One 2013 Chevy Silverado (Chevy): Used to transport cosmic-ray neutron rover.
One MCNPx computer code (Los Alamos National Laboratory): Used to simulate particle transport and understand cosmic-ray neutron probe response to different field conditions.
One rugged field computer (Panasonic): Used to download instrument data in the field.
One 56 Electrode SuperSting R8/IP (AGI): Used to collect electrical resistivity tomography data.

Other resources: The University of Nebraska-Lincoln has a full soil analysis laboratory for performing particle size distribution and particle density. UNL has two VERIS instruments located in the Biological Systems Engineering and Agronomy Departments.