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, April 14, 2008
Kivalina
We are approaching to the final stage of this year’s snow machine trip! One more village to go for total 24 villages in this 3 weeks trip.
The last village is Kivalina, about 90 mile north from Kotzebue. Weather is not ideal situations for snow machine. But we heard weather turning to worse tomorrow. We decide to go and back Kivalina one day trip. We have almost white out. Sometimes we can see sun but sometimes not. Trail condition is not bat. In general, we follow coastline, Kenji did this section in 1995 snowmachining from Barrow. Only concerning is open water. Many open lead is reported near Kivalina. We should not go off shore.
We saw many wild lives the way goes up. About 3 hours later, we made it with freezing cold by the windy gust.
Principal let us warm up and take some warm drinks.
After the warm up, we go to drill site 2 miles away. Drill is not bad and to take 2 hours to establish permafrost station.
After drilling, we check spring site near by (the way back to Kotzebue).
After 5pm, we start head back to Kotzebue. It is getting miserable weather, big heavy snow with wind. All of the trail is already disappeared and looks like nobody here since last fall. Kenji tries to remember the landscape the way coming to Kivalina this morning. Unfortunatlly, white out cannot help his memory much.
However, 7:30pm, we see city light for Kotzebue. It was longest run (175 miles) in this trip. We cerebrate our trip at Bay Side Caffee.
The last village is Kivalina, about 90 mile north from Kotzebue. Weather is not ideal situations for snow machine. But we heard weather turning to worse tomorrow. We decide to go and back Kivalina one day trip. We have almost white out. Sometimes we can see sun but sometimes not. Trail condition is not bat. In general, we follow coastline, Kenji did this section in 1995 snowmachining from Barrow. Only concerning is open water. Many open lead is reported near Kivalina. We should not go off shore.
We saw many wild lives the way goes up. About 3 hours later, we made it with freezing cold by the windy gust.
Principal let us warm up and take some warm drinks.
After the warm up, we go to drill site 2 miles away. Drill is not bad and to take 2 hours to establish permafrost station.
After drilling, we check spring site near by (the way back to Kotzebue).
After 5pm, we start head back to Kotzebue. It is getting miserable weather, big heavy snow with wind. All of the trail is already disappeared and looks like nobody here since last fall. Kenji tries to remember the landscape the way coming to Kivalina this morning. Unfortunatlly, white out cannot help his memory much.
However, 7:30pm, we see city light for Kotzebue. It was longest run (175 miles) in this trip. We cerebrate our trip at Bay Side Caffee.
posted by uaf permafrost # 10:41 PM 
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