2017 NGEE March Nome Trip

Just a skeleton of a beginning but wanted a place to collect scraps of ideas etc.

To Do Yet

• Finalize Helicopter Safety Plan
• Make sure GPS systems are compatible between groups
• Decide if PDF Maps is worth purchasing or if an alternative is better
• 3/18/2017: Call Builders Industrial Supply to order 5/8" rebar

To Purchase

• fieldbooks
• rebar

Helicopter Safety Gear

• Helmets are at post office.
• one tent in Fairbanks, one tent in Nome storage
• 2 stoves in Fairbanks
  • fuel going hazmat on NAC
• emergency bivys in Fairbanks
• sleeping bags: 2 in nome storage, 1 here

Things to ship

• Solar Panels for radio repeater
• Sled for hauling around watershed
• stop signs
• large actionpacker with snow survey supplies
• snow shoes
• Most likely Bob's trip gear
• survey tripods
• solar panels
• 12 volt batteries
• battery charger
• snow poles
• deadman anchors

Aurora Vehicle Reservation

• 3/20 to 4/7 SUV
• Reservation: R40294

General Snow Survey Gear

• shovels (nome Storage)
• 2x Thermal Conductivity Probes
• 3x Snow density tube
• 1x magnaprobe
• Lots of labeled ziplocs
• 2x * snow scale
• short power point on snow survey techniques
• one pager for fieldbooks on what to do
• I think UAF will bring out 4 or 5 pairs of snow shoes plus one pair of skis
• small sled (can haul out by snowmachine on the 21st and leave for our use the rest of the time)
• small actionpacker
• radios so groups can maintain contact
• satellite phone
• satellite tracker
• Snow poles
  • http://www.interwestsafety.com/Product/-315/Snow-Poles/
• 2x avalanche probes

Cameras

• pole?

To Purchase yet

• ziplocs
• rebar
• deadman supplies for markers
• ground rod clamps

3/20

• Bob Busey (Noon) & LANL Crew (Evening) arrive in Nome
• Hotel opens @ 3pm
• pick up stuff from cargo
  • gear
  • safety equipment
• groceries

3/21

• Lily Cohen & Bob Bolton arrive in Nome
• Hotel opens @ 3pm
  • get settled.
  • get groceries

3/22

Survey marker trip day:

• 8am start
• 10am arrive on-site and set up survey gps system
• 10:45 snowmachine to the top of the drainage. Work down the hill deploying markers
• ~7 hrs to deploy markers for UAV/helo
  • Stop sign
  • rebar
  • wooden anchor
  • chains
  • paracord
  • knife
• evening: return to Nome.
• Snow Poles

3/23

• Begin snow surveys in Teller
• Proceed from site to site

Random

• Radio test in Council?
• Move base station in Nome
• download station data at three loggers in Teller
• End of trip need to deploy Pressure Transducer that is in Nome Storage
• Need to reprogram Teller_SW
• Need to reprogram Teller_top for CFM100

Stop sign markers

These markers will be placed on location at the beginning of the trip and will remain through fall 2017 but will require adjusting a couple of times as the snow melts.

Parts:

• rebar
• 1 stop sign
• 4 wooden stakes
• 4 lengths of chain
• 2 grounding nuts
• 4 lengths of paracord

Tools

• wrench to tighten grounding nuts
• knife to cut paracord to length
• light hand maul to pound in wooden stakes
• bosch hammer drill

Instructions for initial deployment

• Locate site
• push rebar to ground through snowpack.
• place grounding nut on rebar and position 4 - 6 inches above snow surface and tighten
• place stop sign on rebar
• put second grounding nut on rebar making sandwich with stop sign.
• start making deadman anchor by collecting materials
  • take one wooden stake
  • one rectangle of fencing
  • one length of paracord
• string paracord through the middle hole of wooden anchor and also the fencing.
• tie a knot.. could do a larkshead here
• put a chain through one of the four perimeter holes on stop sign.
• run the paracord through the chain and tie a trucker's hitch or similar to keep stop sign taut.
• survey in stop sign using GPS

Later in first trip

• when visiting the site on foot, bring the hammer drill.
• excavate a hole down to the ground surface.
• drill a hole with the hammer drill
• put the rebar into this hole
• redo the deadman anchors
• resurvey the stop sign

Ablation trip

• adjust deadman as needed
• as the snow decreases it may become useful to transition from deadman anchors in snow to wooden stakes in ground.
• use the hammer drill to predrill a hole at a healthy distance from the stop sign and re-secure the stop sign.