Guayama Research Area
Location
The Guayama Research Area is located on the south side of Puerto Rico where the Guayama, Cayey, and Salinas municipalities meet. This property has an area of approximately 141 hectares with steep topography which translates to diverse vegetation in the area. Quebrada del Palo crosses the Guayama Research Area from east to west. There are several intermittent streams that feed Quebrada del Palo inside this research area. The property has a small network of old, unpaved farm roads that provide access from its east side. The internal unpaved roads will be useful for supporting future research programs at this research area. There is also an unpaved road north of the property through Cayey that provides access to the Guayama Research Area. The property is currently being surveyed.
Ecological and Physical Description
The Guayama Research Area Weather Tower provides hourly and daily measurements of average, minimum and maximum values of pyrometer, quantum, wind, wind direction, rainfall, air temperature and relative humidity, evapotranspiration and temperature in the water pan.
- UT30 Tower Based Weather Station
- Data Logger CR1000
- CFM100 Compact Flash Memory Module
- CR1000KD Keyboard Display
- 2 Scan Disk
- Solar Panel
- PS100 Power Supply and Battery 12v 7.5 Ah
- LI200X Pyrometer
- LI190SB Quantum
- CS215 Temperature & Relative Humidity
- Met One 034B-L Wind set
- TE525mm Rain Gauge
- T107 Temperature probe
- Pan Evaporation Gauge 255-100 Novalynx Analog
Related Research
- Xianbin Liu, Xiucheng Zeng, Xiaoming Zou, Grizelle Gonzalez, Chao Wang, Si Yang. 2018. Litterfall Production Prior to and during Hurricanes Irma and Maria in Four Puerto Rican Forests