Timeline
2006: Architectural Design of outdoor facility; hire facility manager to oversee design, bidding, and construction; excavation and installation of infrastructure (foundation, scales) for outdoor lysimeters; modifiy building infrastructure to support indoor facilities; design indoor tanks; proposal development; issue RFP for seed grants; recruit graduate students with fellowships.
2007: Hire technician to facilitate instrumentation; excavate undisturbed caisson and installation at lysimeter site; hire two post-doctoral researchers to begin baseline data collection and experimentation; install indoor tanks, including the visualization hardware; award first round of seed grants; proposal development
2008: Complete outdoor facility and begin experiments; complete hardware installation for indoor facility; award second round of seed grants; proposal development.
