Dear All,

A new version of the RAINFOR-GEM manual is now out and here is the link: http://www.tobymarthews.com/rainfor-gem-manual-v30.html (it'll move across to the permanent URL at http://gem.tropicalforests.ox.ac.uk/page/resources very soon).

I hope this is useful!

Best regards,
Toby

Hi Jhon,
I put a schematic of the adapter ring in Appx. II of the RAINFOR-GEM manual (footnote, p.72). If you extract that image and blow it up, you get the attached. With that, you should be able to get an adapter ring made up in any workshop (best to take an SRC-1 with you to the workshop so that they can make it fit exactly).
Saludos,
Toby

Installing the USB to serial converter for the EGM-4

We’ve had some installation problems with the EGM-4: these have been linked to the IOGEAR USB serial adapter (GU232A) not installing properly. Note the installation disk with the USB to serial adapter is not compatible with 64 bit operating systems. If you’re having problems installing the USB to serial adapter follow these instructions:

1. Check your system software in System Properties; System type (32 or 64 bit) and operating system
2. Go to this site: http://www.iogear.com/support/dm/driver/GUC232A
3. Choose the correct driver software for your computer. Click download and when finished, unzip the zipped file and save to a known location.
4. For Windows 7 64 bit; now plug in the USB to serial adapter to your computer (important: please remember which USB port you have used) and wait for several minutes- windows should automatically install the driver. To check, go to Computer, System Properties, Device Manager, Click next to Ports (COM and LPT) and you should see “ATEN USB to Serial Bridge”. If nothing has happened after several minutes, look in Device Manager and you should see an exclamation mark next to “USB serial converter D”; right click on this and a window should appear with an option to select the driver manually; you can navigate to the folder where you saved the driver and install it. Once it is installed you should see the name has changed to “ATEN USB to Serial Bridge in Device Manager”.

Dr. cecile,

I hope you had a good trip.

cordially Fredy Magnanga

Apologies for cross-posting: After much debate and revisions between here and Leeds, the new version (2.2) of the RAINFOR-GEM Intensive Plots manual has now been uploaded on a new subpage of http://gem.tropicalforests.ox.ac.uk/ (see "Resources" on the left).

This replaces the version 2.0 uploaded on GEM in February and also Dan Metcalfe's original v1.0 of the manual uploaded on http://www.geog.leeds.ac.uk/projects/rainfor/pages/manuals_eng.html (under “Measuring tropical forest carbon allocation and cycling”) and http://www.eci.ox.ac.uk/research/ecodynamics/carbon-balance.php (under “Online Materials” halfway down).

Hope this is useful for everyone!
Toby