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
• Harnesses for Sled dragging
  • 2x daisy chain deal & carabiner
• Charge Magnaprobe Batteries
• Still waiting for NRCS snow tube
• Long NRS Straps for snow kits
  • Need 1 long for B kit & 1-2 more for each
• 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.
• Cut snow temperature sensor tubes to size & cap
• Dry bags for helicopter gear (not helo sleeping bags... have those...)

• Need to get data logger downloading kit setup
• grab an extra HMP155 or two
• grab several SR50A transducers
• toughbook
• serial cables
• SC32B for Teller SW station

• Snow Survey Kit

To Purchase

• fieldbooks
• ziplocs?
• arctic oven quick tie down cam deals
• daisy chain deals for sled harness
• make up cables for sled edge hookups
• compression sack for Bob Busey's heavy winter sleeping bag

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

Northern Air Cargo Shipment

1. Magnaprobe Pelican case
2. Magnaprobe Sensor (Long Skinny ABS Pipe)
3. Clear SWE tube (shorter chubby ABS Pipe)
4. Arctic Oven
   1. Poles packed separately
5. Bob Busey Skis (Long Black Roller Case)
   1. Skis
   2. 1pair Polk Poles
   3. 8 Fiberglass Rods
6. A Team Snow Survey Kit (small actionpacker)
7. B Team Snow Survey Kit (Small actionpacker)
8. Sleeping Bag Lg Actionpacker
   1. 1 Reg heavy Sleeping bag
   2. 1 long heavy sleeping bag
   3. 1 reg medium sleeping bag
   4. 1 long medium sleeping bag
   5. 3 drybags for helicopter sleeping bags

Campus and Not quite ready

• Satellite Tracker
• Sat Phone
• Magnaprobe batteries
• Bolt cutter for UAF nome storage
• Lock for UAF Nome Storage

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

• Team B Snow Survey Pruner in Bob Busey Toolbag in UAF Nome Storage
• Steel shovels (nome Storage)
  • avalanche shovels... packed

• 2x Snow density tube
  • Clear & NRCS Metric
• XX Magnaprobe
  • -----> charge batteries
• XX Lots of labeled ziplocs
• XX2x * 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)
• XX small sled (can haul out by snowmachine on the 21st and leave for our use the rest of the time)
• XX small actionpacker
• XX satellite phone
• XX satellite tracker
• XX 2x avalanche probes
• XX 2x metric folding tape
• 2x Thermal Conductivity Probes

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