Over the past few months, we have been working with the Karlsruhe Horticultural Office to select suitable trees for our irrigation experiment. The trees had to have a certain diameter and show no visible signs of disease or damage. We have now selected around 50 healthy trees, which will be fitted with irrigation rings, sap flow sensors and tape dendrometers in the coming weeks.
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Preparations for the irrigation experiment of the TreePulse work package are in full swing. By spring 2025, measuring instruments are to be attached to around 50 trees in Karlsruhe, which will then collect tree physiological data for two years.
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On June 14, an instructive ARBOTOM training course took place at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). Frank Rinn, Managing Director of Rinntech Metriwerk GmbH & Co KG, was on hand to give participants a comprehensive introduction to the sonic tomography of trees.
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On June 10, 2024, the time had finally come: the kick-off event for the URBORETUM project took place in the TRIANGEL Studio. From 9:30 a.m., all those involved in the project, including the Mayor of Environment and Health in Karlsruhe, Ms. Bettina Lisbach, students, researchers from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), employees of the Horticultural Office and other interested parties, came together to give the starting signal for the project.
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