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