{"id":238,"date":"2018-06-07T17:49:18","date_gmt":"2018-06-07T17:49:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/siyabonga-reginald-mathebula\/?p=238"},"modified":"2018-06-08T06:40:31","modified_gmt":"2018-06-08T06:40:31","slug":"back-to-the-fields-07-06-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/siyabonga-reginald-mathebula\/2018\/06\/07\/back-to-the-fields-07-06-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Back to the Fields (07\/06\/2018)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-239 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/siyabonga-reginald-mathebula\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2018\/06\/Screen-Shot-2018-06-07-at-18.20.15-1024x855.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/siyabonga-reginald-mathebula\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2018\/06\/Screen-Shot-2018-06-07-at-18.20.15-1024x855.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/siyabonga-reginald-mathebula\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2018\/06\/Screen-Shot-2018-06-07-at-18.20.15-300x250.png 300w, https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/siyabonga-reginald-mathebula\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2018\/06\/Screen-Shot-2018-06-07-at-18.20.15-768x641.png 768w, https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/siyabonga-reginald-mathebula\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2018\/06\/Screen-Shot-2018-06-07-at-18.20.15.png 1148w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Today I took a field trip with my CSIR Host Supervisors to\u00a0Conduct field experience in the installation of sap flow sensors to measure transpiration (water use) of trees. We also measured an area of 10m x 10m, Calculated how many invasive alien \u00a0trees are found in that area and also measured their stem diameter. The reason for measuring the stem diameter is to check how much the invasive alien trees will grow starting from today (07\/06\/2018) and compare that data \u00a0with the one that will be \u00a0collected in a month&#8217;s time. It was a very informative experience today of drilling the trees at a certain length and inserting the sensors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I took a field trip with my CSIR Host Supervisors to\u00a0Conduct field experience in the installation of sap flow sensors to measure transpiration (water use) of trees. We also measured an area of 10m x 10m, Calculated how many invasive alien \u00a0trees are found in that area and also measured their stem diameter. The &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/siyabonga-reginald-mathebula\/2018\/06\/07\/back-to-the-fields-07-06-2018\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Back to the Fields (07\/06\/2018)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/siyabonga-reginald-mathebula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/siyabonga-reginald-mathebula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/siyabonga-reginald-mathebula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/siyabonga-reginald-mathebula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/siyabonga-reginald-mathebula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/siyabonga-reginald-mathebula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":244,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/siyabonga-reginald-mathebula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions\/244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/siyabonga-reginald-mathebula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/siyabonga-reginald-mathebula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/siyabonga-reginald-mathebula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}