NGEE Nome April 2016 pt 1

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
• 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

• XX Survey Tripod for GPS
• XX Survey Triopd for Snowmelt Station 1 (Teller Road probably)
• Snow sampling equipment
  • X X Avalanche Probe (depth measurement)
  • XX Andirondack Tube
  • XX Compass
  • XX Layer density scoops
    • XX 3pcs
• 2x Net Radiometers
• 2x charge controller
• 1x unistrut for radiometer stand
• 7x

To Shop for yet:

• one hole

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