NGEE Nome April 2016 pt 1
		
		
		
		
		
		
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NGEE Nome April 2016 pt 1 Bonus Notes
Contents
Activities
- Visit Teller Road site
- conduct snow surveys
 - install snow depth & radiation monitoring stand
 - snow melt cameras
 - for daily site surveys: snow depth marker grid for helo photography
 - Get gaging station installed
 
 - Council Road site
- conduct snow surveys
 - install snow depth & radiation monitoring stand
 - snow melt cameras
 - for daily site surveys: snow depth marker grid for helo photography
 
 
Snow melt station description
- 4 component net radiation mounted at 1 to 1.5 meters above ground
- s/n 120966 (yellow) (Pakbus ID = 313)
- SW Up -- 13.83
 - SW Dn -- 13.08
 - LW Up --- 13.46
 - LW Dn --- 14.06
 
 - s/n 131352 (blue)  (Pakbus ID = 314)
- SW Up -- 12.64
 - SW Dn -- 12.69
 - LW Up --- 13.27
 - LW Dn --- 14.65
 
 
 - s/n 120966 (yellow) (Pakbus ID = 313)
 - snow temperature pole with temperatures every 4 cm (4 to 88 cm)
 - soil surface temperature
 - air temperature & relative humidity @ 2 meters
 - snow depth
 - snow melt camera
 
Safety Gear
- XX 3 person Tent (Busey has)
 - knife
 - 3x Sleeping Bags (BYO)
 - Sleeping Pad (BYO)
 - XX Full Medical kit (Busey)
 - cook pot
 - XX drinking water tablets
 - helmets
- Uaf has backup helmets if Bering Air doesn't have any
 
 - pocket saw
 - matches
 - food rations
 - XX Snowshoes
 - XX 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
- XX Small sled
 - XX small actionpacker mountable on sled
 - XX avalanche probe
 - XX small shovel (2 total? one for sampling one for station work?)
 - labeled ziploc bags
 - small scale
 - XX adirondack tube
 - fieldbook
 - XX camera
 - pencil
 - XX 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
- XX 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
 - review developer guide to see about how to send a message
 - have a good compression deal to get 280 characters to 90 so message is cheaper per unit.
 
Snow laser
- Write up on how to use
 - stretch goal of route following
 - XX 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... draft written and running
 - cobble package together for shipping
 - XX white fiberglass rods
 - XX 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
- Survey Tripod for GPS
 - Survey Triopd for Snowmelt Station 1 (Teller Road probably)
 - Snow sampling equipment
- Avalanche Probe (depth measurement)
 - Andirondack Tube
 - Compass
 - Layer density scoops
- 3pcs
 
 
 - 2x Solar panels
 - 2x Net Radiometers
- 2x mounting brackets
 - 1x cable (need to fix second this weekend)
 
 - 2x charge controller
 - 1x unistrut for radiometer stand
 - 7x stabilizers for snow temperature deals
 - 2x snowdepth sensor w/ mounting bracket & cable
 - 13x markers for aerial snow measurements
 
Packing List Basement
- 3x 12V Battery
 - 1x Battery box
 
Tools to Ship
- Cordless Drill
- 2x?
 
 - 1lb hand maul?
 - Pipe wrench?
 
Packing List Cathy
- snow hardness deal
 - sleeping bag
 - sleeping pad
 - scale
 - slr camera
 - snow melt cameras for Kougarok & Teller
 
Packing List Bob Bolton
- Ziploc bags
 - scale
 - sleeping bag
 - sleeping pad
 - fieldbook
 
=Packing List Bob Busey
- 2x remote camera triggers
 - Nikon Camera
- charger
 - memory
 
 - shovel
 - tent
 - sleeping pad
 - sleeping bag
 - first aid kit
 
To Shop for yet:
- one hole deals for snow poles
 - snow poles9?)
 - pipe for cross arms & couplers
 - snacks
 - anything else?
 - more markers?
 
To Track down
- Find a second radiation shield for either HMP155 or HMP145C
 
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