Papers and theses describing Northern Widget technology

Hardware, firmware, and software developed by Northern Widget.

Wickert, A. D. (2014). The ALog: Inexpensive, Open-Source, Automated Data Collection in the Field. Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America, 95(2), 166–176. https://doi.org/10.1890/0012-9623-95.2.68

Wickert, A. D., Sandell, C. T., Schulz, B., and Ng, G.-H. C. (2019). Open-source Arduino-compatible data loggers designed for field research. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 23, 2065–2076. https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-23-2065-2019

Wickert, A. D., Barnhart, K. R., Armstrong, W. H., Romero, M., Schulz, B., Ng, G.-H. C., Sandell, C. T., La Frenierre, J., Penprase, S. B., Van Wyk de Vries, M., and MacGregor, K. R. (2024). Automated ablation stakes to constrain temperature-index melt models. Annals of Glaciology, 64(92), 425–438. https://doi.org/10.1017/aog.2024.21

Schulz, B. (2021). Development of an Ecosystem of Open Source Environmental Data Loggers. M.S. thesis, University of Minnesota. https://hdl.handle.net/11299/226358

Papers and theses using Northern Widget technology

Field and laboratory research deployments.

Tauro, F., Selker, J., van de Giesen, N., Abrate, T., Uijlenhoet, R., Porfiri, M., Manfreda, S., Caylor, K., Moramarco, T., Benveniste, J., Ciraolo, G., Estes, L., Domeneghetti, A., Perks, M., Corbari, C., Rabiei, E., Ravazzani, G., Bogena, H., Harfouche, A., Brocca, L., Maltese, A., Wickert, A., et al. (2018). Measurements and Observations in the XXI century (MOXXI): innovation and multidisciplinarity to sense the hydrological cycle. Hydrological Sciences Journal, 63(2), 169–196. https://doi.org/10.1080/02626667.2017.1420191

Saberi, L., McLaughlin, R. T., Ng, G.-H. C., La Frenierre, J., Wickert, A. D., Baraer, M., Zhi, W., Li, L., and Mark, B. G. (2019). Multi-scale temporal variability in meltwater contributions in a tropical glacierized watershed. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 23, 405–425. https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-23-405-2019

Somers, L. D., McKenzie, J. M., Mark, B. G., Lagos, P., Ng, G.-H. C., Wickert, A. D., Yarleque, C., Baraër, M., and Silva, Y. (2019). Groundwater buffers decreasing glacier melt in the Andes – but not forever. Geophysical Research Letters, 46(22), 13016–13026. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GL084730

Chen, X., Schulz, B., Davitt-Liu, I., Wickert, A. D., and Feng, X. (2025). A compact, low-cost sensing system to enable distributed measurements of urban tree transpiration. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 130(5), e2024JG008653. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024JG008653