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.
Contents
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 solid fuel cooking stoves in Fairbanks
- fuel will arrive on NAC separately
- 5-6 emergency bivys (2 two person units)
- 2x cook pot
- 2x firestarter in fairbanks for shipping
- 2x same for sparkers
- 2x sleeping pad in fairbanks for shipping
- 2x sleeping pad in nome storage
- 2x sleeping bags in nome storage
- 2x sleeping bags in fairbanks for shipping
- 1x wood saw in fairbanks for shipping
- 1x wood hatchet in fairbanks for shipping
Shipping
First Shipment
- XX Check with Brian Lu on the Hazmat
Second Shipment
- 3 Helicopter Helmet Box
- 3pcs PVX1040T Batteries from Room 112 w/ paperwork printed from website
- Link to safety info on batteries that needs printing:
- http://www.sunxtender.com/pdfs/Sun_Xtender_Battery_Technical_Manual.pdf
- Please print Page 13 of the pdf
- Also this page: http://www.sunxtender.com/transportation.php
- Four copies total: 1 per battery and one for NAC
- Orange Snow Poles from Room 106 (3 bundles, maybe 15 poles per bundle)
- crockpot
- 1 new snow tube, 1 old snow tube
- 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
- AP # 2 clothes
- AP # 3
- boots
- thermal conductivity probe
- refrigewear
- 4x snowmetrics
Campus and Not quite ready
- final walk through of office
At Bob's House and Ready to load
Bob's House Not Ready
- WInter Clothes etc
- Survival / safety actionpacker
- ATV helmets
- package of AA batteries above chocolate stash between Bob and Ross
- orange / white survey rods
Things to ship
- Solar Panels for radio repeater
- large actionpacker with snow survey supplies
- Most likely Bob's trip gear
- battery charger
- rest of gps repeater system
Aurora Vehicle Reservation
- 3/20 to 4/7 SUV
- Reservation: R40294
General Snow Survey Gear
- shovels (nome Storage)
- XX 2x Thermal Conductivity Probes
- XX 2x Snow density tube
- Going AK Air 1x magnaprobe
- Lots of labeled ziplocs
- 2x * snow scale
- short power point on snow survey techniques
- one pager for fieldbooks on what to do
- XX 4 pairs of snow shoes plus one pair of skis
- XX small sled (can haul out by snowmachine on the 21st and leave for our use the rest of the time)
- small actionpacker
- --> at campus still --> radios so groups can maintain contact
- XX satellite phone
- XX satellite tracker
- XX Snow poles
- XX 2x avalanche probes
Cameras
- pole?
To Purchase yet
- ziplocs
- --> rebar
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.