2016 NGEE September Nome Trip

Trip Recap

• Got Pits in at Teller top & Bottom
  • ran out of laptop battery, need to correct one more program error at teller bottom site in spring, program fixed on toughbook but not yet on logger.
• Installed ground control at Kougarok & logged for several hours
• Surveyed in a bunch of stuff in Council
• Surveyed in soil pits etc in Teller
• downloaded data from all 4 Kougarok area

Fairbanks

To Buy:

• machine screws for sat transceiver

Teller Bottom @ TL_DS_1

To Do:

• Get Thermal Conductivity sensors running
• Jumper for batteries
• Pack up Surface Water Station for winter
• Duct seal up all instrument box holes
• Final Discharge Measurement of season
• serial numbers

In Nome Storage:

• jumpers for last battery
• soil sampling cylinders for soil pit
• Cable spools for Pressure transducers
• wading rod & cloth tape for discharge measurement

At Site

• duct seal for all connections
• soil pit sensors in large actionpacker

Extras

• think about how to mount iridium here...
• Bring covers from Fairbanks to cover unitstrut ends like tennis balls.

Left to fix

• Decagon SRS sensors... test again in Fairbanks
• Thermal Conductivity sensors... figure out their deal...
  • Check out the wiring. Specifically, the original program guidance has a typo
  • VX3 should be wired to SE11 but program says to SE12. (maybe... in any case, double-check)
  • I have a single working here measuring temperature properly.
• Review fieldbook

Teller Top @ TL_IS5

Remaining To Do for fall

• Bring out a charge controller for solar panel
• soil samples from soil pit
• soil pit sensors are in a large actionpacker next to tower.

Kougarok M64

• Add ground control survey point

Skookum Pass

• Add Satellite Components

Kougarok Old Sites

• Download data over the radio network

Council Old Sites

• Look for camera at Blueberry site
• replace antenna & coax @ blueberry site
• cross river by inflatable if water level is cooperative.

For Datapro:

Add a PRI / NDVI Function:

• NDVI = (DownNIR/UpNIR - DownRed/UpRed)/(DownNIR/UpNIR + DownRed/UpRed)