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!

Thursday, March 8, 2007

 

Ruby to Galena




Kenji had a busy day at Ruby and Galena. He gave two talks in Ruby and then talked to the students at Galena and drilled a permafrost monitoring station.

The temperature was -15 at Ruby. Considerably warmer than the past few days. We were excited about the cahnge in temperature, but that soon changed. As soon as we got down to the river the tempeerature was much colder and also windy again. Does it ever stop blowing on the Yukon River?
May be due to the temperature or loose wire, one of the snow machine was not running well. Sometimes it would just stop on it's own. It seemed to run okey if we were going about 30 mph, but anything above that and it tends to have problems. hummm...

The trail was well marked and packed down. On opening but it was heavily marked like a porcupine. Along the way, Kenji took some water sample and core sample from the river just before reaching Galena.

Galena has a huge runway because of the old military base. They just shut down recently. THere are two schools here and one of them is called GILA. The principal Harry and science teacher Shayne were great. They helped us with our talk and the drilling. We started drilling after we talked to the kids, so by the time we were done it was 9:30.

A good successful day.





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