Tabonuco Tree

Tabonuco Tree

Photography by Xavier Comas, Ph.D., Charles E. Schmidt College of Science

Graduate students Mackenzie Vecchio, Matt Sirianni and Joe Becker from the Geosciences Department collecting a ground-penetrating radar profile across a Tabonuco tree to understand moisture content distribution in different tree species across topographic gradients in the rainforest of the Luquillo Mountains in Puerto Rico. Project funded by the National Science Foundation under the Luquillo Critical Zone Observatory.