2018 NGEE Nome March Trip

Just a skeleton of a beginning but wanted a place to collect scraps of ideas etc. (2/13/2018 copied and pasted from 2017)

Plan B stuff

• LANL Snow shoes?

To Do Yet

• Finalize Helicopter Safety Plan
• Repeat from 2017: Decide if PDF Maps is worth it or if an alternative is better yet
  • We should do zoom in maps for all of the X & L survey points or if not zoom in for each, something similar.

• Snow Survey Kit

To Purchase

• fieldbooks
• ziplocs?

3 person Helicopter Safety Gear

• UAF Nome Storage
  • one 3 person tent
  • 2 solid fuel cooking stoves in UAF Nome Storage
  • 3x sleeping pad in nome

• UAF Fairbanks Storage
  • 5 emergency bivys (2 two person units)
  • 2x cook pot
  • 2x firestarter in fairbanks for shipping
  • 2x same for sparkers
• 2x sleeping bags in uaf storage
• 1x long sleeping bag in fairbanks for shipping

• 1x wood saw in fairbanks for shipping
• 1x wood hatchet in fairbanks for shipping

Shipping

• Magnaprobe Pelican case
• Magnaprobe Sensor (Long Skinny ABS Pipe)
• Clear SWE tube (shorter chubby ABS Pipe)
• Arctic Oven
• Bob Busey Skis (Long Black Roller Case)
  • Skis
  • 1pair Polk Poles
  • 8 Fiberglass Rods
• A Team Snow Survey Kit (small actionpacker)
• B Team Snow Survey Kit (Small actionpacker)

Campus and Not quite ready

• final walk through of office

Things to ship

• large actionpacker with snow survey supplies
• Most likely Bob's trip gear
• battery charger
• Bolt cutter for Nome Storage lock

Aurora Vehicle Reservation

• 3/24 to 4/7 SUV
• Reservation: R42309

General Snow Survey Gear

• shovels (nome Storage)
  • avalanche shovels...
• 2x Thermal Conductivity Probes
• 2x Snow density tube
  • Clear & NRCS Metric
• Magnaprobe
  • charge batteries
• Lots of labeled ziplocs
• 2x * snow scale
• one pager for fieldbooks on what to do
• 4 pairs of snow shoes plus one pair of skis
  • (have 3 and one broken one)
• small sled (can haul out by snowmachine on the 21st and leave for our use the rest of the time)
• small actionpacker
• satellite phone
• satellite tracker
• 2x avalanche probes
• 2x metric folding tape

Cameras

• pole?

Big Logistics

• Waiting on final approval for tent borrow

Itinerary

Out of data for 2018

3/23

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

Random

• download station data at three loggers in Teller
• download station data at NGEE-Kougarok site