2022 NGEE Nome March Trip

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Snow Survey Trip

  • Measure Snow across the research sites off the road to Teller and Kougarok.
  • Visit climate stations in the research areas and download data.

Cargo: as packaged

  • Arctic Oven -- 3pcs
    • Orange tent
    • large black duffel with ground tarp and interior floor
    • olive colored tent pole bag
  • New clothes drying racks -- 2pcs
  • Helicopter Sling Survival Kit large actionpacker
    • Snow anchors for tent (black fabric shopping bags)
    • guy wires for tent in medium size olive bag
    • Black Field Trauma kit
    • Blue Extended First Aid Kit
    • Wood Stove
      • Stove pipe (multiple pieces of tube)
      • cookie sheet to put under for spark protection
      • silicone cookie mat for stove slide protection
      • Green Hatchet
      • Black small hand saw
      • black sparking kit
      • smoke alarm
    • duraflame logs
    • 2pcs fire sticks
    • small amount of toilet paper
    • 4 freeze dried meals of 500 to 600 calories
    • 3 freeze dried meals of 600 to 700 calories
    • 4 freeze dried meals of 700+ calories
    • 4 small head lamps
    • 1 small flashlight
    • snow melting pot with fire starter packed inside.
  • Snow Survey Kit A
  • Snow Survey Kit B
  • Helicopter Helmets Large Actionpacker
    • 3 pcs UAF Helmets

Things to Ship

  • 2pcs magnaprobe
  • cloth tape
  • toolbags
  • Helicopter survival actionpackers
  • Arctic Oven Tent
  • Snow tube
  • 2pcs small actionpackers with snow survey supplies
  • From LANL: 4pcs
    • 2 Larger than Lg actionpacker plastic totes
    • 1 larger than Sm actionpacker tote
    • 1 PVC Pipe bundle of SWE tube plus something else
  • AA batteries for game cameras
  • Snow shoes
  • Sleeping bags
  • sleeping pads

Nome things

  • Alert Bering Air about white gas in safety kit I think it may need to travel outside cockpit.

LANL Conex

  • 2 small sleds from LANL conex should be shipped on safety sling load

UAF Conex

  • White gas, fill LANL fuel bottles

Itinerary

  • March 25: Arrive on the evening flight
  • March 26am: Pick up cargo and deliver to NWC... or maybe Monday.
  • March 26 to 28 morning: mostly isolate in hotel rooms
  • March 28: Pick up gear, deliver to Nome NW Campus. Unpack / repack / deliver to Bering Air
  • March 29: Start of helicopter season
  • ...
  • April 8: Gear retrieval and packup
  • April 9: Return home

PRs

  • AK Air Cargo / Everett's
  • Small items while in town
  • Sensor things?
  • Batteries & Bulbs for more CR800 / CR1000 lithium batteries
    • AA Batteries for the game cameras at the snow sites.
      • 8 batteries per camera X ____ cameras
        • KG-IS5
        • KG south side of hill
        • TL IS2
        • One more?
    • PR to beef up snow high snow stands, rime ice. So perhaps more pipe and the fittings.

Nome Storage

  • Bring out two pipe wrenches in March / June so that we can take apart the drill bit Sasha used in Fall of 2021.
  • I have 2 wire snakes in Fairbanks. Blue & Brown. Send Brown to Nome and leave out there on spring trip.
  • bring out a couple scaffold clamps for backups to radiometer arms.
For Snow Survey Kit
  • 2x Tile Probes

Teller Bottom

  • Did I replace the CF card at teller bottom?
    • Look for files Met_110 to 113 on the CF. They're missing from the dropbox data archive and it's likely that they were CF card write errors so I'm not expecting to find them but wanted to note for future use.
    • This seems similar to the file i/o problem that hit NGEE Kougarok site.

Teller Top

  • Replace HMP155 (replaced in June 2021 but broke several weeks later.)

Teller 47

  • Need to add to the Teller 47 site visit to do list "DUMP PRECIP BUCKET EVERY VISIT"
  • ordered a replacement SR50A for the willows site. Will need to deploy in 2022

Teller SW

  • Need to measure the Teller Creek at a high flow in 2022 (So: May) a few times in order to be able to use the old rating curve with the new pressure transducers.
  • should make a couple changes to Teller SW program:
    • alias the pressure transducers rather than use the arrays
    • only save out stage & water temp (currently three values being outputted)
    • revisit how the SDI12 extra parameters are done... to be more specific, rewrite PT SDI12Recorder so that NAN isn't recorded when SDI12 communication fails.
    • definitely revisit SDI12 as the average output turning into NAN did come into play in 2021 summer.

CAS second site

  • if time check for any further water damage to components

Chat Channel Q&A

2022 Safety Presentation

Sleeping Bags

  • UAF brings 1 heavy long, 1 heavy regular,
  • UAF brings 1 light long (could bring a light regular but in past years LANL has supplied)
  • LANL brings 2-3 heavy (depending on how many helicopter occupants: if it is 4 then 2 bags if it is 5 then 3 bags).
  • LANL brings 2-3 light (depending same helo occupants )

Do we have a big/wilderness first aide kit that is part of the sling load?

  • 1 big kit for sling load (UAF supplies)
    • Slide 20 to 25 of safety presentation (as of 2/8/22)
  • 1 big kit for helo (LANL supplies)
  • 1 small kit per individual (edited)

White Gas Stove

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