2022 NGEE Nome March Trip

Snow Survey Trip

• Measure Snow across the research sites off the road to Teller and Kougarok.
• Visit climate stations in the research areas and download data.

Cargo: as packaged BASEMENT

• LANL Magnaprobe Yellow Pelican Case
• Arctic Oven -- 3pcs
  • Orange tent
  • large black duffel with ground tarp and interior floor
  • olive colored tent pole bag
• New clothes drying racks -- 2pcs <<<<------- NEED TO PUT IN GARBAGE BAG, pieces are falling out.
• Helicopter Sling Survival Kit large actionpacker
  • Snow anchors for tent (black fabric shopping bags)
  • guy wires for tent in medium size olive bag
  • Black Field Trauma kit
  • Blue Extended First Aid Kit
  • Wood Stove
    • Stove pipe (multiple pieces of tube)
    • cookie sheet to put under for spark protection
    • silicone cookie mat for stove slide protection
    • Green Hatchet
    • Black small hand saw
    • black sparking kit
    • smoke alarm
  • duraflame logs
  • 2pcs fire sticks
  • small amount of toilet paper
  • 4 freeze dried meals of 500 to 600 calories
  • 3 freeze dried meals of 600 to 700 calories
  • 4 freeze dried meals of 700+ calories
  • 4 small head lamps
  • 1 small flashlight
  • snow melting pot with fire starter packed inside.
• Snow Survey Kit A
• Snow Survey Kit B
• Helicopter Helmets Large Actionpacker
  • 3 pcs UAF Helmets
  • helicopter survival kit items
    • 4pcs survival bivvys
    • gallon ziploc with more helicopter survival kit items
    • extra cord
    • percolating coffee pot for helicopter kit (grab and go stove inside it)
    • shovel for grab and go
    • snow saw for grab and go
• 2 pcs sleeping bags still need to be packaged for transport
  • Need to add 2 more sleeping bags from Girls on Ice kit
• Shelving for UAF Conex

Cargo: as packaged ROOM 207B

• 1pcs Magnaprobe Yellow
• 2pcs Magnaprobe rod
• 1 pcs UAF SWE tube
• 1 pcs LANL SWE Tube & bonus
• 2 pcs large black red roller tote LANL
• 1 pcs gray smaller tote LANL
• 1 pcs RM Young anemometers
• 1 pcs Bolton red snowshoes
• Large Actionpacker
  • Busey bulky items, bit o food, emergency gear overflow
• Small Actionpacker 1
  • 8 pcs 3/4" pipe fittings for top bar
  • tool bags (didn't look at tools)
  • 3pcs scaffold clamps
  • 2pcs field books
• Small Actionpacker 2
  • Vaisala HMP155 s/n T3530586
  • Vaisala HMP155 s/n T3530587
  • Vaisala HMP155 s/n T3220670
  • Vaisala PTB110 s/n T4240828
  • SR50A s/n 14001
  • 100m cloth tape
  • 25ft steel fish tape
  • 2pcs vent tube desiccant & CNR4 desiccant
  • multimeter labeled Fairbanks
  • 1pcs pipe wrench

While I'm thinking about it

• Grab two ultralight sleeping pads in Anchorage
• need to decide on mounting to the 4x4 the cross piece (if needed). That might mean another fitting and bolt combo. Need to review the parts list.

Things to Ship

• cloth tape
• toolbags
• Helicopter survival actionpackers
• Arctic Oven Tent
• Snow tube
• 2pcs small actionpackers with snow survey supplies
• From LANL: 4pcs
  • 2 Larger than Lg actionpacker plastic totes
  • 1 larger than Sm actionpacker tote
  • 1 PVC Pipe bundle of SWE tube plus something else
• AA batteries for game cameras
• Snow shoes
• Sleeping bags
• sleeping pads

Nome things

• Alert Bering Air about white gas in safety kit I think it may need to travel outside cockpit.

LANL Conex

• 2 small sleds from LANL conex should be shipped on safety sling load

UAF Conex

• White gas, fill LANL fuel bottles
• Thaw probes for measuring kits

Itinerary

• March 25: Arrive on the evening flight
• March 26am: Pick up cargo and deliver to NWC... or maybe Monday.
• March 26 to 27 morning: mostly isolate in hotel rooms; Unpack / repack /
• March 28: deliver to Bering Air; Start of helicopter season
• ...
• April 8: Gear retrieval and packup
• April 9: Return home

PRs

• XX AK Air Cargo / Everett's
• XX Small items while in town
• Sensor things?
• XX Batteries & Bulbs for more CR800 / CR1000 lithium batteries
  • AA Batteries for the game cameras at the snow sites.
    • 8 batteries per camera X ____ cameras
      • KG-IS5
      • KG south side of hill
      • TL IS2
      • One more?
  • XX PR to beef up snow high snow stands, rime ice. So perhaps more pipe and the fittings.

Nome Storage

• Need one more---> Bring out two pipe wrenches in March / June so that we can take apart the drill bit Sasha used in Fall of 2021.
• XX I have 2 wire snakes in Fairbanks. Blue & Brown. Send Brown to Nome and leave out there on spring trip.
• XX bring out a couple scaffold clamps for backups to radiometer arms.

For Snow Survey Kit

• 2x Tile Probes
• Heet for alcohol stove?

Teller Bottom

• Did I replace the CF card at teller bottom?
  • Look for files Met_110 to 113 on the CF. They're missing from the dropbox data archive and it's likely that they were CF card write errors so I'm not expecting to find them but wanted to note for future use.
  • This seems similar to the file i/o problem that hit NGEE Kougarok site.

Teller Top

• Replace HMP155 (replaced in June 2021 but broke several weeks later.)

Teller 47

• Need to add to the Teller 47 site visit to do list "DUMP PRECIP BUCKET EVERY VISIT"
• ordered a replacement SR50A for the willows site. Will need to deploy in 2022

Teller SW

• Need to measure the Teller Creek at a high flow in 2022 (So: May) a few times in order to be able to use the old rating curve with the new pressure transducers.
• should make a couple changes to Teller SW program:
  • alias the pressure transducers rather than use the arrays
  • only save out stage & water temp (currently three values being outputted)
  • revisit how the SDI12 extra parameters are done... to be more specific, rewrite PT SDI12Recorder so that NAN isn't recorded when SDI12 communication fails.
  • definitely revisit SDI12 as the average output turning into NAN did come into play in 2021 summer.

CAS second site

• if time check for any further water damage to components

Chat Channel Q&A

2022 Safety Presentation

• https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1X2amzW0A7fsssNS8iDTeLGMU3dJ0DzsyK5qGN1JlbsU/edit#slide=id.g501bf9682b_0_35
  • Last Update: March 2020

Sleeping Bags

• UAF brings 1 heavy long, 1 heavy regular,
• UAF brings 1 light long (could bring a light regular but in past years LANL has supplied)
• LANL brings 2-3 heavy (depending on how many helicopter occupants: if it is 4 then 2 bags if it is 5 then 3 bags).
• LANL brings 2-3 light (depending same helo occupants )

Do we have a big/wilderness first aide kit that is part of the sling load?

• 1 big kit for sling load (UAF supplies)
  • Slide 20 to 25 of safety presentation (as of 2/8/22)
• 1 big kit for helo (LANL supplies)
• 1 small kit per individual (edited)

White Gas Stove

• LANL packing notes from 2020 shows one purchased. Row 61 of this document:
  • https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1laMJgjOBnJ5H23Of49AAM9o2o_6_Z2qP58PEKQ41Sew/edit#gid=0
• white gas is in UAF Nome conex. (see slide eight:)
  • https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1ksCyC7B6QP2D18SthBQ2nuQUqM1UBLu8lZAw9c28GZ4/edit#slide=id.gb81369a289_0_10