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Davis Instruments was happy to partner with an exciting research project aimed at allowing growers to recharge their groundwater without interrupting normal farm operations using our EnviroMonitor system. The project, the Subsurface Artificial Groundwater Recharge System is the being led by Cordie Qualle, Fresno State civil engineering professor and Interim Director of the California Water Institute.Read now -
What is a Bomb Cyclone? What is an Atmospheric River? Both are headed for California this weekend
Read nowHere in the California, we don’t know if we should be happy about breaking out our wet weather gear in preparation for this weekend’s coming storm with its one-two punch of a bomb cyclone and an atmospheric river, or dreading...
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If you grow anything in the west, you need a soil moisture sensor
Read nowIf the definition of drought is a “period of abnormally dry weather,” it is beginning to feel like the word is misused in describing what’s going on out here on the west coast. "Abnormal" seems to be quite normal. But...
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Meteorology 101: Blogger's Vantage Pro2 records invisible weather phenomenon
Read nowWhat in the weather world is a “clear air vortex”? Well, we just happen to know someone who not only knows what it is, but had one of these weather phenomena hit his house in Oklahoma. Aaron Tuttle was able...
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What is Air Quality?
Read nowThere is a well-known story about a young monk learning to meditate. He complains that “just breathing” is boring. His teacher asks him to put his head in a bucket of water and keep it there for 5 minutes. The...
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Jacobs Farm: Growing Herbs in Greenhouses with EnviroMonitor
Read nowSandra Belin and Larry Jacobs walk the fields of their Pescadero, California, farm where their farm story began. Over 40 years ago, Larry Jacobs and his wife Sandra Belin acted on their urge to get back to the land and...