Matt Crawford, Hudson Koch, and Evelyn Bibbins and UK Earth and Environmental Sciences’ Sarah Johnson headed to Robinson Forest in Breathitt County, to test cell service connectivity for data loggers that will be a part of KY NSF EPSCoR CLIMBS Project 5. Project 5 is working to mitigate landslide impacts through stronger monitoring and modeling of the Kentucky River Area. In this portion of Project 5, the group will be instrumenting slopes to monitor soil moisture.
The group was assisted by John Reinstetle, Robinson Forest manager, who showed them around the forest. Robinson Forest is a teaching, research, and extension forest administered by University of Kentucky Martin-Gatton College of Agriculture, Food and Environment‘s Department of Forestry and Natural Resources in cooperation with the UK Robinson Center for Appalachian Resource Sustainability.
