Permafrost outreach 2009
The University of Alaska EPSCoR program, NASA IPY and NSF IPY, Thermal State of Permafrost programs are conducting an outreach effort in conjunction with it's research focus on permafrost and infrastructure. The outreach effort has been termed the "Permafrost Health" program and consists of installing permafrost temperature monitoring systems!Tuesday, February 13, 2007
drill rig test
We are preparing snow machine/outdoor items and also drill equipment.
Maybe 70%(by weight) of our total carrying baggage will be drill equipment including pressure pump unit, PVC pipes etc. It will be difficult to evaluate which system we should choose in this trip. Portable drill system depend on materials. If we hit boulder or icy silt bonded gravel layer, it takes long time to drill or may need to give up! Anyway, drilling experiments will help better idea to cutting efficiency. We made coarse frozen gravel (permafrost imitation) at garage and test different drill bit.
posted by uaf permafrost # 9:33 PM 
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