Agricultural & Environmental Research

Environmental Monitoring for Agricultural & Environmental Research

Agricultural and environmental research can involve highly varied monitoring requirements, from individual field measurements and short-term experiments to multi-year, multi-parameter monitoring programmes across experimental plots, field sites and catchments.

Flux Enviro works with universities, research organisations, environmental practitioners and agricultural researchers to develop practical monitoring solutions around the research objectives and required data. Early involvement allows us to consider measurement parameters, accuracy and resolution, monitoring frequency, spatial coverage, site conditions, power and communications, data logging and long-term maintenance requirements before equipment is selected.

Our extensive equipment range supports research across soil, groundwater, surface water, hydrology, water quality and meteorology, with equipment available for both supply and rental. This allows instrumentation to be matched to individual experiments, field campaigns and longer-term research programmes without being constrained to a single measurement technology or manufacturer.

Solutions can range from individual sensors, sampling equipment and field instruments through to permanent monitoring stations and remotely connected multi-sensor networks, integrating measurements from different environmental disciplines within a common monitoring system.

Hydrology & Surface Water

Hydrological monitoring can support research into rainfall-runoff relationships, catchment response, surface water dynamics, flow and changing water-quality conditions across streams, rivers, experimental plots and wider catchments.

Flux Enviro provides instrumentation for individual field measurements, hydrometric surveys and continuous monitoring, including:

• Surface water level and flow monitoring

• Rainfall and runoff measurement

• ADV and ADCP flow measurement and profiling

• Surface water sampling and water-quality monitoring

• Continuous data logging and remote telemetry

Measurements can be deployed individually or combined within multi-parameter research monitoring systems, allowing relationships between rainfall, water level, flow and water quality to be investigated over time.

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Hydrogeology & Groundwater

Groundwater research often requires understanding aquifer behaviour, hydraulic response, recharge processes, groundwater–surface water interaction and spatial or temporal changes in groundwater chemistry. Investigations may combine discrete sampling and hydraulic testing with high-frequency monitoring to characterise both short-term responses and longer-term groundwater behaviour.

Flux Enviro provides equipment for:

• Groundwater level and temperature monitoring

• Groundwater sampling and low-flow methods

• Conductivity and temperature logging

• Groundwater-quality monitoring

• Pumping and aquifer response testing

• Continuous monitoring and remote telemetry

Instrumentation can be deployed across individual boreholes, piezometer arrays or wider monitoring networks, with groundwater measurements integrated alongside rainfall, surface water and soil data where research requires investigation of interactions between environmental systems.

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Soil Sampling

Soil research often requires representative samples collected at defined locations, depths and volumes, with the sampling method determined by the physical or chemical properties being investigated. Requirements can range from disturbed samples for routine characterisation through to undisturbed cores, bulk-density samples, depth-specific profiles and soil solution sampling.

Flux Enviro provides professional soil sampling equipment for environmental research, agricultural trials, soil characterisation and experimental programmes, including:

• Hand and powered soil augers

• Edelman and specialist auger designs

• Undisturbed and core sampling equipment

• Bulk-density sampling

• Profile and depth-specific sampling

• Soil solution sampling

• Extension rods and specialist accessories

Equipment can be selected according to soil type, sampling depth, required sample volume, target parameter and the degree of sample disturbance that can be accepted, supporting both individual field campaigns and repeatable sampling programmes.

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Soil Science & Moisture Monitoring

Understanding the movement, storage and availability of water within the soil profile is fundamental to many agricultural, ecological and environmental research programmes. Monitoring can support investigation of soil-water dynamics, plant-available water, infiltration and drainage, nutrient availability and leaching, and spatial or temporal variability within the soil profile.

Flux Enviro provides instrumentation for:

• Volumetric water content

• Soil water potential

• Soil temperature

• Multi-depth soil moisture profiling

• Soil electrical conductivity

• Soil solution sampling

• Infiltration measurement

• Continuous data logging and telemetry

Sensors can be deployed individually or combined into multi-depth and multi-location monitoring networks, allowing changes through the soil profile to be monitored continuously across experimental plots, agricultural land and research sites.

Soil measurements can also be integrated with rainfall, meteorological, groundwater and surface-water monitoring, while soil solution sampling can support investigation of nutrient movement and leaching through the soil profile. Together, these measurements allow relationships between environmental conditions, soil-water dynamics and nutrient transport to be investigated within the same research programme.

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Meteorological Monitoring

Meteorological conditions are often key drivers of environmental processes and provide essential supporting data for interpreting changes observed in soil, groundwater, surface water and experimental systems. Local measurements can help researchers relate environmental response to rainfall events, temperature, evapotranspiration, wind conditions and solar inputs.

Flux Enviro can provide measurement of:

• Rainfall

• Air temperature and relative humidity

• Barometric pressure

• Wind speed and direction

• Solar radiation

Meteorological instrumentation can range from individual sensors and compact weather stations to permanent research-grade monitoring stations, with measurements recorded locally or transmitted remotely.

Meteorological data can also be integrated alongside soil moisture, hydrology, groundwater and water-quality measurements, using common data logging and telemetry infrastructure. This allows environmental responses and their potential meteorological drivers to be analysed together through a single data platform.

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Research Monitoring Systems & Sensor Integration

Environmental research programmes often require measurements from multiple disciplines, locations and instrument manufacturers to be collected within a common monitoring system. Flux Enviro can integrate instrumentation around the research objectives and required data, rather than restricting system design to a single sensor platform or manufacturer.

Flexible data logging and communication platforms can bring together measurements including soil moisture and water potential, meteorology, groundwater, surface water, flow and water quality, alongside other compatible analogue and digital sensors.

Systems can range from individual logged sensors and experimental plots to multi-parameter, multi-location monitoring networks, with options for local data storage, remote telemetry, automated data transfer and online access.

Flux Enviro can support the complete monitoring system, including sensor selection and integration, data logging, communications, power, enclosures, installation, configuration and commissioning.