Sowacs

is an acronymn for
Soil Water Content Sensors and Measurement

The Soil Water Content Sensor discussion group contents are archived here. This page contains information on the various methods of measuring the soil water content in situ, but concentrates on automated electronic sensors that can be continuously logged with dataloggers.

An email discussion list named sowacs is currently operating, and this serves as the main source of content and feedback for these pages. Please subscribe to the list if you are interested. There are around 300 to 400 members [as at March 1998] made up of researchers, commercial suppliers and "users" of the equipment. As such there is a fairly balanced but good response to queries posed on the list.

It has since 1994 become one of a few fairly well-known sources of information on the web  

The discussion and this archive were started by myself, Bruce Metelerkamp (brooz@pobox.com) in 1994, whilst employed at the Institute For Commercial Forestry Research, South Africa. I have since emigrated to New Zealand, and you can find my personal homepages at www.pobox.com/~brooz.

The list and web pages were completey rewritten when www.sowacs.com in 1999. Support in the form of covering the hosting costs have kindly been met by Campbell Scientifc Inc. since then.

The site's look was modernised to its current look in 2001.

 

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