2017 NGEE March Nome Trip

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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

  • 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


Shipping

At Campus and Ready to load

Campus and Not quite ready

  • Survival / safety actionpacker
  • ATV helmets
  • crockpot
  • orange / white survey rods
  • 1 new snow tube, 1 old snow tube
  • package of AA batteries above chocolate stash between Bob and Ross

At Bob's House and Ready to load

  • Actionpacker #1
    • 80+ deadman anchor wire
    • 80+ deadman anchor wooden stake
    • 80+ deadman anchor chain (Handy Link Chain Size #135)
    • 80+ deadman anchor 1/8" quick link
    • 20+ grounding rod nuts
    • Black Electrical Tape
    • 1/2" Wrench
    • flat file
    • round file
    • 1" bit for hamer Drill
  • 20 boxed stop signs
  • Bob's Skis &polk poles
  • tobogan sled
  • 3 pcs Survey Tripods

Bob's House Not Ready

  • WInter Clothes etc

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
  • 2x avalanche probes


Cameras

  • pole?

To Purchase yet

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

Itinerary

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.
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