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!Wednesday, April 11, 2007
To Kotzebue we go!
Today we left Fairbanks at 8:30AM to fly to Kotzebue.
The plan was to Fly to Kotzebue and snow machine to Noatak and then to neighboring schools and a pingo.
We used Frontier Air because they have direct flights from Fairbanks.
It was mostly cloudy the entire way.
We arrived in Kotzebue before noon and went to pick up our gear at Northern Air Cargo, which was right across the street.
Only to find that our stuff hasn't even left Fairbanks yet.
We were told that the plane will arrive at 8 PM tonight, but the office will close at 5 PM.
We shall see what happens.
Instead of heading to Noatak today, it seems like we will be spending the night here.
In the mean time, we visited the Selawik National Wildlife Refuge office and talked to staff members. Kenji is hoping to visit an interesting site in the refuge, and wanted to coordinate something for a future project. From the meeting it seemed likely that Kenji would be able to work with them in the summer.
This afternoon we will visit the high school and try to meet the teachers here.
Update-
The school teacher was very excited about our project, and he said that if we could find a place to drill they can download the data.
Later we went to the Borough Office to see if we can talk to someone getting permission to drill a hole. After some scrambling, Kim was able to connect us with Grant and Emmit who shold be able to help us.
We are suppose to see them Friday...?
Northern Air Cargo let us in the building after the plane landed , but unfortunately the snow machines did not make it to Kotzebue.
The plan was to Fly to Kotzebue and snow machine to Noatak and then to neighboring schools and a pingo.
We used Frontier Air because they have direct flights from Fairbanks.
It was mostly cloudy the entire way.
We arrived in Kotzebue before noon and went to pick up our gear at Northern Air Cargo, which was right across the street.
Only to find that our stuff hasn't even left Fairbanks yet.
We were told that the plane will arrive at 8 PM tonight, but the office will close at 5 PM.
We shall see what happens.
Instead of heading to Noatak today, it seems like we will be spending the night here.
In the mean time, we visited the Selawik National Wildlife Refuge office and talked to staff members. Kenji is hoping to visit an interesting site in the refuge, and wanted to coordinate something for a future project. From the meeting it seemed likely that Kenji would be able to work with them in the summer.
This afternoon we will visit the high school and try to meet the teachers here.
Update-
The school teacher was very excited about our project, and he said that if we could find a place to drill they can download the data.
Later we went to the Borough Office to see if we can talk to someone getting permission to drill a hole. After some scrambling, Kim was able to connect us with Grant and Emmit who shold be able to help us.
We are suppose to see them Friday...?
Northern Air Cargo let us in the building after the plane landed , but unfortunately the snow machines did not make it to Kotzebue.
posted by uaf permafrost # 2:27 PM 
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