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!Sunday, April 13, 2008
Noorvik/Kotzebue
We have a quiet Saturday morning next of John's house (Not School!). This house has big wide window facing to the south. We can see frozen Kobuk River. We go to drill site with John. Drill site is tundra surface with a few spruce trees. Air temperature is a little bit cold (-5dF), it not great temperature for drilling. We did permafrost station and frost tube taking 3 hours.
We move to Noorvik 1pm. Noorvik is hub village for trail system for Kotzebue, Selawik, and Kiana. We pass through the way going to Selawik. We look for Rod (Math/Science teacher). He is in the gym even on Saturday. We are very lucky to find several students help us to install logger and frost tube. High school student (Jerry) helps a lot all the way installation out side of the school! Thank you Jerry!
After the establish site. We go to Kotzebue.
posted by uaf permafrost # 8:41 PM 
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