BTU overview
Research Platform Chicken Creek

Pictures

Construction phase 2004 to 2005
28.08.2004: Dumping of the clay layer
01.09.2004: View to southeast with levelled eastern parts
23.09.2004: Eastern parts: dumping structures
23.09.2004: View to southeast, dumping of the clay layer
23.09.2004: Clay layer: pond basin
23.09.2004: Clay layer before levelling
23.09.2004: Levelling of clay layer and clay dam (eastern part)
23.09.2004: View to the eastern parts, start of levelling the clay layer
28.09.2004: View to southeast with pond basin
28.09.2004: Levelling of the clay layer, upper parts
29.09.2004: Levelling of the clay layer
13.10.2004: View onto the pond and the catchment hill
10.02.2005: Lower parts of the catchment hill with clay dams
10.02.2005: Lower parts of the catchment hill with temporary pond
11.03.2005: View to the eastern parts with dumping structures
11.04.2005: View to southeast with pond basin
11.04.2005: Pond basin with temporary pond
12.05.2005: View to south east (from upper edge) before levelling
12.05.2005: View to southeast with pond and Chicken Creek floodplain
27.05.2005: Levelling of the surface
27.05.2005: Levelling at the lower parts of the catchment hill
27.05.2005: Levelling of the central trench
14.07.2005: Installation of weir 1
14.07.2005: Surface with bulldozer traces
18.07.2005: Construction of the gravel dam above weir 1
18.07.2005: View to southeast
18.07.2005: Construction of the spring area above weir 1
18.07.2005: Levelling above weir 1
18.07.2005: View to southeast
20.07.2005: View onto the pond and the catchment hill
28.07.2005: Spring area with weir 1
09.08.2005: View onto the pond from the eastern part with traces of levelling
01.09.2005: View onto the pond and the catchment hill
01.09.2005: Surface flattening
01.09.2005: Surface flattening and last levelling
15.09.2005: View onto the pond from the eastern part (situation at the starting point of the project)
15.09.2005: View onto the pond from the western part (situation at the starting point of the project)
30.09.2005: Installation of monitoring devices (weather station 1 and groundwater gauge)
28.10.2005: View onto the pond and the catchment hill: water streaming to the pond
08.11.2005: View onto the pond (from southwest)
18.11.2005: Measuring and sampling campaign at the pond
08.12.2005: Surface structures with beginning erosion
Beginning of the project 2005 to 2008
17.02.2006: Main erosion rill of the eastern part next to the spring area: erosion structures
07.04.2006: View onto the pond with erosion structures
05.05.2006: View onto the pond and the catchment hill
20.06.2006: View onto the pond from the western part with erosion rill
18.08.2006: View onto the pond and the catchment hill
18.08.2006: Main erosion rill of the eastern part next to the srping area
05.09.2006: Optimization of the surface boundary
05.09.2006: View onto the pond from the western part
14.09.2006: View to southeast from the upper edge with Conyza canadensis aspect
14.09.2006: Main erosion rill of the eastern part next to the spring area
14.09.2006: Main erosion rill of the eastern part next to the spring area (view from upper parts)
14.09.2006: View onto the pond from the eastern parts
14.09.2006: Installation of weir 2 (outlet of the pond)
25.10.2006: View of weir 1 with alluvial fan
20.11.2006: Completion of weir 2 with ponton bridge
06.12.2006: View onto the pond and the catchment hill
22.01.2007: View onto the pond and the catchment hill
24.05.2007: View onto the pond and the catchment hill
31.05.2007: Main erosion rill of the western part next to the spring area (view from upper parts)
02.10.2007: Construction of soil pits
09.11.2007: View into a complete soil pit
15.11.2008: View onto the pond from the eastern parts
28.03.2008: Starting of remote sensing using a micro drone
20.05.2008: View onto the pond and the catchment hill: increasing riparian vegetation
20.05.2008: View onto the hillslope with beginning differentiation of vegetation patterns
21.05.2008: Main erosion rill of the eastern part (view from the upper parts)
21.05.2008: Differentiation of vegetation patterns: Trifolium arvense in the wetsern parts
21.05.2008: Differentiation of vegetation patterns (view from western parts at the upper edge)
10.06.2008: View onto the pond and the catchment hill with measuring devices for pond level
10.06.2008: View southeast
10.06.2008: Establishment of the reed zone around the pnd