A Brief Review of Temperature Measurements
The properties of materials and nearly all biological, chemical, and physical processes are temperature dependent. As a result, temperature is perhaps the most widely measured environmental variable, and there are multiple sensors, or thermometers, a…
Protecting Your IRR from Spiders
When making measurements and carrying out experiments, scientists tend to spend a great deal of time and care in selecting the right instruments, calculating uncertainty, and making sure conditions are acceptable. One of the last things on the minds…
How to Make a Weatherproof Cable Splice
As anyone involved in the field installation of sensors can confirm, there are times when a diversion from the original plan must be followed. In many instances a sensor’s cable length can be a direct cause or effect of this diversion. In an ideal wo…
Minimizing Problems with Wasps on Weather Stations
Weather stations can suffer damage or the data can be altered due to pests. Pest issues include anything from Elk rubbing the velvet off their antlers against a station, cattle bumping and damaging a station while grazing, vandalism, bird droppings o…
Better Know a Distributor - Decagon Devices
The ‘Better Know a Distributor’ series highlights other companies that distribute and resell Apogee products.
Apogee Instruments has a long history of working closely with our partner company Decagon Devices in Pullman, Washington. We’ve work…