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, March 18, 2008
Kotlik and Stebbins
We thought of a few options last night.
But nothing was certain until morning.
Once calls were made and talked to some people, we decided to send some of our equipment in Emmonak and our sleds in Anchorage to Unakleet.
The stuff will get there on Thursday, and if we hurry we can be there when it arrives.
To do this, we needed to lighten our load, because we were only able to find one sled that would work for us.
Unfortunately the other sleds in the village sold out just days ago.
Although everything was in a rush, we were able to pack and leave by 10:30.
Since we had been delayed, we were planning on making a quick stop at Kotlik and then arriving to Stebbins or St. Michels today.
(Special thanks to Jason who loaned us his sled and Will who helped us with everything)
The trail was nice and hard and well marked with a little bit of fresh blown snow.
There was enough tracks from Emmonak to Kotlik, and it only took about an hour and a half to get there.
As soon as we got the school, Kenji talked to the teacher and we started drilling the hole for the Permafrost station.
Although the wind was blowing a little bit, the drilling went successfully.
After fueling up, we headed to Stebbins.
despite the cold wind, the clear blue sky made for a good day to travel.
We even took a short break for lunch.
Along the coast it became harder to see where the land ended and the sea started, very flat and hard to tell directions and distances.
Three hours on the snow machine and we made it to Stebbins around 6 PM.
Thanks to Eric the school door was open for us.
We quickly drilled a hole for the Frost tube and called it good for the day.
But nothing was certain until morning.
Once calls were made and talked to some people, we decided to send some of our equipment in Emmonak and our sleds in Anchorage to Unakleet.
The stuff will get there on Thursday, and if we hurry we can be there when it arrives.
To do this, we needed to lighten our load, because we were only able to find one sled that would work for us.
Unfortunately the other sleds in the village sold out just days ago.
Although everything was in a rush, we were able to pack and leave by 10:30.
Since we had been delayed, we were planning on making a quick stop at Kotlik and then arriving to Stebbins or St. Michels today.
(Special thanks to Jason who loaned us his sled and Will who helped us with everything)
The trail was nice and hard and well marked with a little bit of fresh blown snow.
There was enough tracks from Emmonak to Kotlik, and it only took about an hour and a half to get there.
As soon as we got the school, Kenji talked to the teacher and we started drilling the hole for the Permafrost station.
Although the wind was blowing a little bit, the drilling went successfully.
After fueling up, we headed to Stebbins.
despite the cold wind, the clear blue sky made for a good day to travel.
We even took a short break for lunch.
Along the coast it became harder to see where the land ended and the sea started, very flat and hard to tell directions and distances.
Three hours on the snow machine and we made it to Stebbins around 6 PM.
Thanks to Eric the school door was open for us.
We quickly drilled a hole for the Frost tube and called it good for the day.
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