2012 August Nome Trip

Pre-trip to do

• ship out anemometers

Things to buy

• Bit o' Food?
  • bread & peanut butter (lunch)
  • coke
  • yogurt & granola (breakfast)
  • veggies
  • ice

Stuff to bring out

Other

• Truck & Hotel Reservations
• Contact Rich Norby

Equipment

• 5 Anemometers
• HMP45c heads ?
• Net Radiometer Domes
• 12 hoseclamps
• Dry Dessicant
• 1 serial cable for K3
• 6pcs SR50A
• 1pcs SR50
• Ken's battery tester

Technical Gear

• Keypad
• Tool Bags
• Computer & SC32B
• Climbing harness

• Serial Cables & spares
• NRS straps for battery boxes
• A couple of replacement brown tarps
• Sawzall ?
• drill ?

Food to bring out

• DIY this one for nights / days out of town
• Breakfast / Lunch Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday
• Dinner Wednesday, Thursday, Friday

Probable Luggage

1. Bob Personal backpack [Busey #1]
2. Work Actionpacker #1 [Busey #2]
3. Anemometer Box [Busey #3]
4. Work Actionpacker #2 [Bolton #1]
5. Bob Personal backpack [Bolton #2]

A sampling of Personal Gear

Clothes:

• 8 Underoos (one for every day plus a few more)
• 2 pair extra socks
• 1 pair extra pants
• 1 - 2 extra shirts
• 2 pair sock liners
• light poly pro long underwear, 1 bottom, 2 tops
• shorts

Footwear and such:

• rubber boots
• sandals
• hip waders
• hiking boots
• gaiters

Outerwear and such

• couple pairs of light gloves
• heavy rain pants
• rain coat (I like to bring two in case it's rainy)
• large flannel shirt (cotton for bug protection)
• extra fleece jacket (one or two)
• probably a light fleece vest
• ultra light wind breaker (this is my base layer)
• fleece hat or two

Other stuff:

• water proof bag(s)
• large daypack
• 1 - 3 Liters of water bottles
• Sleeping bag & pad
• toothbrush
• camera
• field book
• camera (if you want)
• cell phone
• tent
• first aid kit

Stuff to bring out to Council / Kougarok that is currently in Nome storage

• Hand Maul
• Food, kitchenware
• Anything else?
• Vehicle Safety Gear:
  • jumper cables (in tan/green plastic tote)
  • tow rope (in tan/green plastic tote)
• garbage bags
• soldering iron
• bag o' hose clamps
• bear spray
• jingle bells
• Water Jug
• Cooler for veggies etc.

Station by Station to do

Kenji's Bear Creek Thermokarst

• download data
• replace battery
• restart logger

C1 Grid

• Current Sensor Data as of 7/25/2012
  • 1m AT, 3m AT, 1m RH, 3m RH, 3m WS, 3m WD, Net Rad, = Good
  • Look @ Snow (no recent data on web)
  • Rain -- Look for a chopped wire, no recorded precip for a while.
  • Need to update config files on datapro to reflect changed soil array.

• Download data
• Review Data
• Fix soil temperature probe
• Snow sensor?
• Precip cable chomped?
• Need to update datapro's array file information.
• Replace domes on net radiometer
• Level Radiometer
• level precip stand
• Replace SR50A, make note of new serial number
• Trim vegetation below snow sensor
• Replace RM Young WS/WD
  • make note of angle prior to removal
  • make sure it is pointing north with the new unit.
• Test Batteries with battery tester

C2 Blueberry

• Current Sensor Data as of 7/25/2012
• Computer Related
  • Download Data
  • Review Data
  • update datapro with soil info.
• Physical
  • All AT/RHs have some funny business going on
  • level precip stand
  • Replace domes on net radiometer
  • Level Radiometers
  • Replace SR50A, make note of new serial number
• Replace RM Young WS/WD
  • make note of angle prior to removal
  • make sure it is pointing north with the new unit.
  • Trim vegetation below snow sensor
  • Test Batteries with battery tester

Council Vlad Forest (optional)

• Location: N64 54' 24.7" W163 40' 40.4"
• Download CR10X Data

Council Vlad Shrub (optional)

• Location: N64 56' 5.3" W163 44' 16.7"
• Download CR10X Data

Skookum

• AT/RH probe needs fixing in a big way
• Test Batteries with battery tester

Anvil

• remove second radio & antenna
• Look @ anemometer to see if it's working. Maybe bring out another transistor
• Test Batteries with battery tester

Anvil City

• Look at anemometer
• Look @ barometric Pressure
• Kenji's Hobos?
  • download data
  • replace battery
  • restart logger

K1 Kigluaiks

• AT/RH is funky again.
• download data

K1 Burn

• From Last Year's Notes
  • Precip Orifice missing
  • snow thermocouples knocked over
  • AT/WS mast broken off & hanging by AT cable
  • Net Rad bent
  • 1m AT/RH upside down
  • tarp blown off and torn up
  • altar shield trashed
  • Moved 3m cable to 1m and rewired in logger box
  • didn't bother changing rad domes
  • Top crossarm sheared @ 1.25" to 3/4" coupling. Will need to bring out monkey wrenches to maybe bust that loose.
  • leaving 3m radiation shield (rm young is intact (minus cable) in battery box
  • precip stand parts are in battery box (tee and 3 hoseclamps)
  • SR50A was bumped in May 2012
  • All soil bad
• Replace domes on net radiometer
• Relevel Net Radiometer
• Replace Radio
• Replace SR50A Transducer, not serial number
• Replace Tarp
• Download Data
• Storage Module addition?
• Replace HMP45C Head (1m, 3m), note serial numbers
  • Only 1m exists at the moment, will need a cable for the second.
  • 1m looks borked right now, too.
• Replace RM Young
• Not sure about SR50A, if it works right now...
• new precip stand
• Trim vegetation below snow sensor
• Replace RM Young WS/WD
  • make note of angle prior to removal
  • make sure it is pointing north with the new unit.

K1 Burn Snow

• Download Data
• Review Data

K2 Met

• Download Data
• Review Data
• Replace domes on net radiometer
• Replace SR50A and record serial number
• Relevel Radiometer Tower & Net Radiometer
• Leave Radio in ON position, Flag 1 High
• send new program to turn off radio
• Thaw Depth measurements at site
• Storage Module addition... yes.
• Replace HMP45C Head (1m, 3m, 10m) and record new serial numbers
• I wonder if the multiplexer is failing here. Funkiness from all three AT/RH sensors.
• Replace RM Young Anemometer
• Soil stuff has gone bad... again, a multiplexer fail?
• new precip stand
• Trim vegetation below snow sensor
• could AM416 be failing?

K2 Met Snow

• Download Data
• Review Data

K3 Mauze

• Download Data
• Review Data
• Level Precip stand
• replace radiometer domes
• Relevel Net Radiometer
• Replace SR50 Transducer
  • be prepared to put in an SR50A if the SR50 has been hammered by a bear again
• Pretty sure this site was hit hard by a bear in Mid-May
• Replace Anemometer
• Replace HMP45C Head (1m, 3m) and record new serial numbers
• Trim vegetation below snow sensor

??Saito / Harada / Kenji Kougarok Sites??

• Swap Hobos
• At borehole
  • download data
  • replace battery
  • restart hobo

Potential Itinerary: Bob & Bob

8/5, Day 1

+ Depart Fairbanks (8am) for Nome (1pm)
+ Rent Truck
+ Swing by storage pick up:
  o bear spray
  o soldering iron
+ shop for food?
+ Go up to Anvil and check it out (if time allows)
  o check out wind speed.  Bring the backup anemometer from the Nome Storage
  o bring a spare diode
+ Check out Anvil City station
  o replace transducer of snow sensor
  o wind speed is reading 0 for the most part.
  o barometric pressure problem?

8/6, Day 2

+ Drive to Council (~70 miles one-way, ~2hours drive time)
+ Site Visit to Skookum (2/3rd along the way)
  o AT/RH is busted / disconnected
+ Site Visit to C1 Grid
  o Bring soldering iron and be prepared to solder the precip wire back together
  o get Vlad's soil temperatures back online. (loose wire?)
  o replace RM Young Anemometer
  o Level Rain gage
  o Level Net Radiometer
  o Change Net Radiometer Domes
  o Change Net Radiometer Dessicant
  o Change out Snow sensor
  o Look for chewage in soil temperature cable

+ Site Visit to C2 Blueberry
  o All 3 AT/RH are bad.
  o replace RM Young Anemometer
  o Level Rain gage
  o Level Net Radiometer
  o Change Net Radiometer Domes
  o Change Net Radiometer Dessicant
  o Change out Snow sensor

+ Vlad Shrub (maybe)
+ Vlad Forest (maybe)
+ Site Visit to C2 Blueberry? (could also push this to later in the week)
+ ?Site Visit to Bear Creek Thermokarst (Kenji Site)?
+ Return to Nome
+ Gas up in Nome

8/7 Day 3

+ Nome to Kougarouk is about 2.5 - 3 hours driving.
+ Site Visit to K3 (~6 miles round trip hike)
+ Camp / stay @ cabin (or tent)

8/8 Day 4

+ Paddle across Kougarok River, unless stage is low (getting stuff into the canoe will be the most time consuming bit) 
+ Site Visit to K1 (~ 9 miles round trip from beach head)
+ Site Visit to K2 (~2 miles round trip from beachhead)
+ ??Site Visit to Kenji borehole (same area as Saito / Harada)??

8/9 Day 5

+ Drive to Kigluaiks? (about 1.5 hours from Nome)
+ Return to Nome
+ Meet up with NGEE Part 2

8/10 Day 6

+ Drive to Council
+ Visit blueberry site?  
+ spend QT with NGEE group
+ return to Nome

8/11 Day 7

+ Return truck
+ Return to Fairbanks (10am)

Notes from Kenji

Todd -> next to the gravel road see the pipe stick up. 10m one is very clear, no vegetation. the other is near willows. look for the top of th epipe then loggers are inside the pipe.

Kougarok
two locations tussock the other site is a bit lower flat f tussock harder to see than flat site.

Bear Creek
just before bridge there is some tundra. can park on the higher spot. usually right side of the lake next to the road. see white spruce at thermokarst site. bottom of the white spruce miliatry army box hobo is inside lake is next to road. Matt's thesis is the lake. go around the right side of the lake. nearest white spruce tree. may have a flag or a pipe.

The every site list:

• take pictures of site
• replace net radiometer domes
• level net radiometer
• level precip gage
• replace snow depth sensors & record serial number
• download data
• review data
• replace anemometer & record serial number