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Experiment 1 – Plant Health
This UT FieldLab experiment falls under the theme Food security and biodiversity. View all experiments related to this theme.
Can you tell if a plant is thirsty just by looking from above? In this U…Experiment 2 – Rock Garden
This UT FieldLab experiment falls under the theme Earth structures and dynamics. View all experiments related to this theme.
How do you read a rock? Every stone tells a story of millions of years of …Experiment 3 – Green Roofs and Walls
This UT FieldLab experiment falls under the theme Urban spaces and infrastructures. View all experiments related to this theme.
How cool does a building stay with a green roof or wall after a heatwav…Experiment 4 – Wind Tunnel
This UT FieldLab experiment falls under the theme Water cycle and climate. View all experiments related to this theme.
On the beach, there's a lot of sand and it's almost always windy. Yet, all this …Experiment 5 – Vegetation monitoring
This UT FieldLab experiment falls under the theme Food security and biodiversity. View all experiments related to this theme.
Can you tell how healthy a plant is from a photo? In this experiment, we …Experiment 6 – Weather and climate tower
This UT FieldLab experiment falls under the theme Water cycle and climate. View all experiments related to this theme.
How much water evaporates from a field into the air? It sounds like a simple que…Experiment 7 – Urban microclimate sensors
This UT FieldLab experiment falls under the theme Urban spaces and infrastructures. View all experiments related to this theme.
Why does a city feel so much warmer than the countryside on a summer da…Experiment 8 – Soil Mechanics and Subsurface Test Field
This UT FieldLab experiment falls under the theme Earth structures and dynamics. View all experiments related to this theme.
How much strength is hidden in a root? In this experiment, we study how pl…Experiment 9 – Integrated Geodetic Reference Station (IGRS)
How can we trust that a satellite orbiting hundreds of kilometers above Earth is measuring the planet with precision? Surprisingly, part of the answer lies on the ground. In this experiment, research…Experiment 10 – Greenhouse
This UT FieldLab experiment falls under the theme Food security and biodiversity. View all experiments related to this theme.
What happens to a plant when you can control every ray of light and every…Experiment 11 – KNSB Ice Rink Test Field
This UT FieldLab experiment falls under the theme Water cycle and climate. View all experiments related to this theme.
How do you keep the Dutch skating tradition alive in an era of increasingly mild…Experiment 12 – Underground Infrastructure
This UT FieldLab experiment falls under the theme Urban spaces and infrastructure. View all experiments related to this theme.
How do you locate cables and pipelines without digging, especially when …Experiment 13 – Seismo-Acoustic Network with KNMI
This UT FieldLab experiment falls under the theme Water cycle and climate. View all experiments related to this theme.
How do you capture signals you can’t see or hear? This experiment studies the sm…Experiment 14 – Aquatic Sensing Facility (AquaSense)
This UT FieldLab experiment falls under the theme Watercycle and climate. View all experiments related to this theme.
At first glance, water just looks blue or green, but hidden inside are stories ab…Experiment 15 – Hidden Hunger
This UT FieldLab experiment falls under the theme Food security and biodiversity. View all experiments related to this theme.
How do we monitor not only how much food we produce, but also how nutriti…Experiment 16 – Capturing carbon with miscanthus
This UT FieldLab experiment falls under the theme Water cycle and climate. View all experiments related to this theme.
Elephant grass, also known as miscanthus, is a fast-growing perennial crop with …Experiment 17: Dynamic test site
What can we learn from short-term outdoor experiments? Some experiments are simply unsuitable for a laboratory setting. They need to be carried out in real outdoor environments—sometimes rainy, windy…