NGEE Nome April 2016 pt 1

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Activities

  • Visit Teller Road site
    • conduct snow surveys
    • install snow depth & radiation monitoring stand
    • snow melt cameras
    • Get gaging station installed
  • Kougarok Road site
    • conduct snow surveys
    • install snow depth & radiation monitoring stand
    • snow melt cameras

Snow melt station description

  • 4 component net radiation mounted at 1 to 1.5 meters above ground
    • s/n 131352 (blue)
      • SW Up -- 12.64
      • SW Dn -- 12.69
      • LW Up --- 13.27
      • LW Dn --- 14.65
    • s/n 120966 (yellow)
      • SW Up -- 13.83
      • SW Dn -- 13.08
      • LW Up --- 13.46
      • LW Dn --- 14.06
  • snow temperature pole with temperatures every 4 cm
  • soil surface temperature
  • air temperature & relative humidity @ 2 meters
  • snow depth
  • snow melt camera

Safety Gear

  • 3 person Tent (Busey has)
  • knife
  • 3x Sleeping Bags (BYO)
  • Sleeping Pad (BYO)
  • Full Medical kit (Busey)
  • cook pot
  • drinking water tablets
  • helmets
    • Uaf has backup helmets if Bering Air doesn't have any
  • pocket saw
  • matches
  • food rations
  • Snowshoes
  • 1 pair of skis


To Ship

  • Laser snow probe (or parts of it)
  • batteries (x2) for stantds
  • the radiation / snow monitoring stands
    • one survey tripod
    • snow temperature setup
  • skis
  • survival gear

Snow Sampling detail

  • Small sled
  • small actionpacker mountable on sled
  • avalanche probe
  • small shovel (2 total? one for sampling one for station work?)
  • labeled ziploc bags
  • small scale
  • adirondack tube
  • fieldbook
  • camera
  • pencil
  • snow hardness probe

Snow Laser Tools required

  • couple of allen wrenches
  • 1/4" and 5/16" nut drivers
  • multitool

Snow Laser System

  • Survey tripod
  • matching freewave radios
  • base battery
  • remote battery
  • pelican case for brain
  • second pelican case for brain (button-free)
  • third pelican case for base station
  • pig speaker
  • regular speaker
  • compass
  • radio system
  • Fiberglass yellow T probe
  • Chimney rod
  • chimney rod extension
  • clear tray
  • phone / table with geopdfs loaded
  • bluetooth button

Hydro station setup

  • tripod
  • logger & box
  • pressure transducers
  • battery
  • solar panel
  • charge controller
  • camera?
  • snow depth sensor?

Station Setup

  • Hardware
    • Survey Tripod
    • Horizontal arm in two pieces (electrical conduit cut in half)
    • vertical pole in two pieces (might be possible to higher through trickery for the camera... need to mull.
    • radiation shield for air temperature
    • short cross arm for snow depth
    • stabilizing rods for snow temperature profiles (3 or 4 plus plastic deals)
    • net radiometer mounting bracket
    • unit strut chunk for survey tripod mount
    • maybe
    • battery
    • solar panel
    • battery box
    • power cabling for energy system
    • instrument box
      • solar panel charge controller
      • data logger
      • multiplexer
      • precision resistors
      • sutron iridium transceiver
      • raspberry pi a+
      • switched 12 volt deal
      • cigarette adapter
      • cigarette to 5V adapter
      • iridium antenna for transceiver
  • Sensors
    • Air Temperature
    • Net Radiometer
    • snow depth
    • snow temperature
    • soil surface temperature
    • game camera for observing snow melt

To Do Yet

Iridium system

  • Sign up for service
  • find 2x5 connector so I can turn them on.... maybe done
  • review developer guide to see about how to send a message
    • I am thinking simple, like (this is relative) just using a raspberry pi to interface between the logger and the iridium. Or, start off that way and if I can manage then direct iridium to logger.
    • for rapid prototyping though
    • I think this is fleshed out elsewhere in the wiki but I think it's close. Just need to get them activated.

Snow laser

  • Write up on how to use
  • stretch goal of route following
  • look into programming the R8s for supplying RTK if the other units don't arrive.


Snow temps / depth / net radiation stand

  • write data logger programs
  • cobble package together for shipping
  • white fiberglass rods
  • the one hole deals to secure rods to the snow probe

Rest of snow gear

  • track down scales
  • zip loc bags
  • folding tape
  • t probe


To Do

  • Calibrate Snow temperature probes
  • test out RTK gps
  • load maps and points on to phone & little computers
  • get CSI deal running and automate the iridium stuff
    • could just look at the Ken style read input locations thing
  • write snowmelt station programs
  • write gaging station program
  • ship
  • wire up instrument boxes
  • make sure I have all equipment for instrument boxes


Packing List: Room 207 Ready to go

Packing List Basement

  • 3x 12V Battery
  • 1x Battery box

Tools to Ship

  • Cordless Drill
    • 2x?
  • 1lb hand maul?
  • Pipe wrench?


Packing List Cathy

  • snow hardness deal
  • sleeping bag
  • scale

Packing List Bob Bolton

  • Ziploc bags
  • scale
  • sleeping bag
  • fieldbook

To Shop for yet:

  • one hole deals for snow poles
  • snow poles9?)
  • pipe for cross arms & couplers
  • snacks
  • anything else?
  • more markers?

To Track down

  • Find a second radiation shield for either HMP155 or HMP145C


Plan for week of 3/28

  • 3/29 Ship Batteries to Nome (3x) on Northern Air Carog
  • 3/30 Final word on permits
  • 3/30 ship snow melt stations on Alaska Air Cargo
  • 4/1 & 2 Depart for Nome
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