Greetings from cornhusker country!

The primary focus of the Remote Soil Temperature Network (RSTN) is to
collect air and soil temperature data from sites where the Natural USDA
Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) has few data.  We started the
RSTN in 1996 using OnSet Hobo/StowAway data loggers.  To date, we
have annual data from over 150 sites across the US and Caribbean
Area.  Our primary interest in these data are the soil temperature regimes
at the different locations.  We also are interested in air temperature and
its deviation from 30-year normals at some locations (Global Climate
Change).

We collect data 5 times each day for a year (1800 readings) with the
StowAway XT1 data loggers.  That time interval suits us for the analysis
we wish to perform.  Hourly data is "nice" but 8760 readings per sensor
per year are a little much to deal with for a network as large as the
RSTN.

Summarized annual data are posted on the NRCS Global Change
HomePage (National Temperature Summaries at
http://www.statlab.iastate.edu:80/soils/nssc/  All data are nonproprietary
and can be shared.  We like to have a minimum set of site data when
loggers are installed; i.e., lat/long, veg, slope, aspect, etc.  My main
customers for these temperture projects are NRCS soil scientists, but I
also have projects with private landowners, the USFS, the National Park
Service in the Grand Canyon, the LTER personnel at Niwot Ridge in
Colorado, the South Dade County Soil and Water Conservation District in
Florida, and the city parks in New York CIty.

My original intent with interacting with the GLOBE Schools was to collect
soil temperature at 2 to 3 locations along the Equator but not much
has happend yet.

At any rate, we at the National Soil Survey Center are interested in soil
temperature measurements from urban environments.  We do have a
few units available to collect air and soil temperature data from school
settings.

Thanks for your interest.

HENRY MOUNT
Soil Scientist
USDA NRCS, Lincoln, NB