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 20, 2008
Unalakeet
Another busy morning for Kenji at St. Michael.
We stayed Frank's science class last night.
His talk started at 9:30 and as soon as he was done, he went to the Permafrost Station to download the data.
The trail to Unalakeet is less traveled and Kenji was a little cautious about the trail.
But we asked for trail conditions and markers from many of the knowledgeable people.
And luckily, there were 7 dog teams and snow machines that went on the trail two days ago, so the trail should be easy to find.
The temperature in St. Michael was -17F with some wind.
We were prepared for a cold ride.
Soon we were out of the cold area, and the felt much warmer with the sun shining high above us in the blue sky.
The trail was in superb condition.
We saw the group of mushers in Golsovia.
Again, we got more information about the trail ahead of us, which is even less traveled.
There were some known open water in he area, so we wanted to be sure where to get out on to the sea ice.
As we got closer to Unalakleet the near shore ice became harder to ravel with all the jagged mounds of land fast ice.
There were also a lot of drift wood in this area.
We stopped at the school first and talked to the principal Bill.
Even though it was during Spring Break, he was kind enough to let us say at the school.
A beautiful day snow machining, safely arriving in Unalakleet, getting a place to stay, it almost seemed like our first good day.
But that didn't quite work out the way we hoped to.
When we went to pick up our cargo, we were told that it wasn't here yet...
We were counting on our sleds and other gear to continue our installation expedition.
Kenji starts thinking and trying to figure out what he can do.
Supply is hard to come by in the villages, and here is no exception.
He scrambled around the village to look for some pipes...
After some phone calls, he finally found some 1"1/2 ABS pipe.
Know it's improvising time.
One good thing about this trip is the beautiful sunset we have been having.
As the sun is setting Kenji is drilling the sea ice to measure the thickness of the ice.
We stayed Frank's science class last night.
His talk started at 9:30 and as soon as he was done, he went to the Permafrost Station to download the data.
The trail to Unalakeet is less traveled and Kenji was a little cautious about the trail.
But we asked for trail conditions and markers from many of the knowledgeable people.
And luckily, there were 7 dog teams and snow machines that went on the trail two days ago, so the trail should be easy to find.
The temperature in St. Michael was -17F with some wind.
We were prepared for a cold ride.
Soon we were out of the cold area, and the felt much warmer with the sun shining high above us in the blue sky.
The trail was in superb condition.
We saw the group of mushers in Golsovia.
Again, we got more information about the trail ahead of us, which is even less traveled.
There were some known open water in he area, so we wanted to be sure where to get out on to the sea ice.
As we got closer to Unalakleet the near shore ice became harder to ravel with all the jagged mounds of land fast ice.
There were also a lot of drift wood in this area.
We stopped at the school first and talked to the principal Bill.
Even though it was during Spring Break, he was kind enough to let us say at the school.
A beautiful day snow machining, safely arriving in Unalakleet, getting a place to stay, it almost seemed like our first good day.
But that didn't quite work out the way we hoped to.
When we went to pick up our cargo, we were told that it wasn't here yet...
We were counting on our sleds and other gear to continue our installation expedition.
Kenji starts thinking and trying to figure out what he can do.
Supply is hard to come by in the villages, and here is no exception.
He scrambled around the village to look for some pipes...
After some phone calls, he finally found some 1"1/2 ABS pipe.
Know it's improvising time.
One good thing about this trip is the beautiful sunset we have been having.
As the sun is setting Kenji is drilling the sea ice to measure the thickness of the ice.
posted by uaf permafrost # 10:33 PM 
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