Prospectus, September 9, 1975

ELECTION OPENS TODAY; PC news in brief: Baseball trip…., Wind and Strings…., Hot Meals…., IOC…., Review Basics….; Bus Arrives; editorials; Aid for the blind; Letters To The Editor; Blacker\u27s Block; Letter to all men born in 1957; Twilight tours offered by PC land lab; Land Lab open house; Parking spaces available!; Womens Sports; Good News; Meeting to discuss Stu-Go elections; Women\u27s Column; Newman Club meets today; Good news!; Maximum Sex; Parkland College Pizza Eating Contest; Bible study anyone?; 30 new faculty start at P.C.; Vinyl Love; Speech Anyone?; IM trophies to be awarded; Campus near capacity? Enrollment up; Skylines; Enrollment In woman\u27s program; Classified; Sports Views; Unk Blacker: Dirt Track Wizard; Grothe has two lettermen as linksters open season; Intramural Sign-Up; Fast Freddy\u27s football forecast; Lynette Trout to coach all women sports; Games Of September 13; \u27December 1 or bust\u27 cry latest on PE completion; SNA wants new members; Farout Planethttps://spark.parkland.edu/prospectus_1975/1007/thumbnail.jp

Prospectus, October 21, 1975

PC NEWS IN BRIEF: FOOTBALL VOTE TODAY, HEALTH BROCHURES AVAILABLE, CANOE TRIP, BLOOD DRIVE, YOU CAN GRO; P.E. Building Ready by Christmas; New road to open; Faculty-Administration compromise: Midterm letter grades issued; editorials; Letters To The Editor; Roots & Radicals; McMullen vetoes jackets; Parkland Events; Career Room open to students; Tie-Rods named tug-of-war champs; Parkland Student directory; Football referendum set for October 22-23; LRC Suggestion Box; Distaff Side; Forum; Dear Bonnie; The Kaleidoscope; Zanies Here Today: Dinglefest Theatre; Football Results; Sports Views; Hendricks, Oliver to return: Cagers prepare for season; Fast Freddy\u27s football forecast; Games Of October 25; Coach\u27s Corner; Jocks; Intramurals: The People\u27s Sport; Lanphar to retire; P/C offers dog school; The Draft and YOU; Crosby and Nash Concert disappointing; Child development program starts; Vinyl Love; Foto-Funny\u27s; Country Bouquet; Bicentennial festivities announced: Celebration Week March 29-April 3; Bicent. Leadership Confab slated; Mini-concert; Local art for Bicentennial; Money still available from BEOG; folkorist October 23; Two plays to be presented in December; Classified; Club Notes: Vets Affairs..., I.O.C. Plans..., Rifle Club..., Lit Magazine...; Far Out Planet: Skylines; Scholarshp news from WIUhttps://spark.parkland.edu/prospectus_1975/1004/thumbnail.jp

Prospectus, September 23, 1975

CHILD CARE PASSES FACULTY SENATE; PC News in Brief: Josh Is Coming, Transfer to U of I?, LRC Workshops, Pharmacy Trends; Gee, Smallman wins; Small Turnout; editorials; Letters To The Editor; Thanks Gary!; Roots & Radicals; Health Brochures Available; Peace Corps Needs Volunteers; Make Your Junk Attractive; The King in C-U; Good News; Josh is coming!; Women\u27s Column; Parkland Loses $; foto funnies; Storage without refrigeration; Vinyl Love; Sports Views; Football Results; Coaches\u27 Corner; Volleyball Needs Organization; On the road; Cross Country Schedule 1975; Fast Freddy\u27s football forecast; Fast Freddy winners announced; Jocks; Women\u27s Volleyball Schedule; Faculty team finishes 2nd; Aluminum Hub and All; Dear Bonnie; Poems; Classified; Country Bouquet; Schedule Of Coming Events; Bicentennial Contest; Your garage sale price to sell; Far Out Planet; Skylines; Parkland faculty; Enrollment At P/C Up; Club Notes: Park-Rec Society, Lambda Alpha, Veterans, Catholic Singleshttps://spark.parkland.edu/prospectus_1975/1006/thumbnail.jp

A WEIGHING LYSIMETER FOR CROP WATER USE DETERMINATION IN THE JORDAN VALLEY, JORDAN

Efficiency of water use in irrigated agriculture can be improved by providing irrigation scheduling information to farmers. Since 2003, the Middle Eastern Regional Irrigation Management Information Systems (MERIMIS) project has focused on improving irrigation scheduling in Jordan, Palestine, and Israel with cooperators from the region and the U.S. Their efforts have established a network of 15 weather stations to support an irrigation scheduling service using the paradigm that crop water use is equal to a reference evapotranspiration (ETr) value (calculated from weather data) multiplied by a crop coefficient. Because crop coefficients developed in one region often do not transfer exactly to another region, crop coefficient values should be developed for those crops commonly grown in the Middle Eastern region and for the agronomic practices, including row spacings, prevalent in the region. Row spacings in this region are often wider than in other regions so that full canopy cover is often not attained, and spacings vary among farmers, leading to an important crop cover factor influence on ET rates throughout the growing season. This article describes the site selection, design, construction, calibration, and preliminary results for a weighing lysimeter built by the MERIMIS team for determination of crop coefficients in the Jordan Valley. Distinct features of the design include the low roof that guarantees at least 1.5 m of soil depth all around the lysimeter, the tall scale‐support piers that allow for suspension of the vacuum drainage tanks from the scale so that drainage does not change lysimeter mass, the elevated load cell and datalogger that provide insurance against the unlikely event of flooding, and the rectangular surface that accommodates the wide variety of row spacings used in the Jordan Valley. The lysimeter is sited in the center of a 100 × 200 m drip irrigated field, is 2.4 × 3 m in surface area and 2.5 m deep, and has a calibrated accuracy of 0.11 mm of water and resolution of 0.064 mm. Preliminary data show that the lysimeter and associated weather instrumentation are working as expected and are able to detect half‐hourly ET rate responses