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!Monday, October 1, 2007
Dawson
After buying supplies we left Whitehorse and headed for Dawson.
We had lunch at Five Finger Rapids Lookout.
We arrived in Dawson around 2:30 and met principal Philip Cull and science teacher Liz Wood.
At the site, Panya first dug out the dirt layer, and then the gravel layer with a shovel.
After the hole was about 50cm deep, Kenji strated drilling the borehole.
At about 3.70cm deep we hit another gravel layer and stopped drilling.
And a successful permafrost monitoring station was installed.
Since we could not go as deep as we wanted, we tried drilling in another location.
The drilling went on well into the evening, but we stopped after hitting a couple of gravel layers.
We had lunch at Five Finger Rapids Lookout.
We arrived in Dawson around 2:30 and met principal Philip Cull and science teacher Liz Wood.
At the site, Panya first dug out the dirt layer, and then the gravel layer with a shovel.
After the hole was about 50cm deep, Kenji strated drilling the borehole.
At about 3.70cm deep we hit another gravel layer and stopped drilling.
And a successful permafrost monitoring station was installed.
Since we could not go as deep as we wanted, we tried drilling in another location.
The drilling went on well into the evening, but we stopped after hitting a couple of gravel layers.
posted by uaf permafrost # 10:59 PM 
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