6/15/16
Today for dinner was yummy Thai coconut curry! yum.
It was cold and very windy today. I road the fat tire bike out on the runway and was often having to plow through 2 feet deep drifts, which made it challenging. Today we practiced vault rescue. There are all these 30 foot deep vaults running under the station here that carry electric wires or fuel or store food. So there is a chance of a fall, and we practiced rescuing people from them via a tripod and via mechanical advantage (with pulleys)
6/16/16
Today we did one of our monthly tasks known as IceSat. The purpose of IceSat is to measure snow accumulation. There is a roughly 15 mile transect with 120 bamboo poles. We each take out a snowmobile to use for the transect. One of the snowmobile pulls a poly pod behind it, which is used as a shelter in case of inclement and also houses a very accurate GPS device from UNAVCO. It's so accurate that it measures sub centimeter. We stop at each of the bamboo poles for 10 seconds to allow the GPS to get a good altitude measure, which will tell you how much snow has accumulated since the last survey. We also measure the distance from the snow surface to a marked spot on each flag to give another metric of snow accumulation. The whole survey takes about 6 hours and is quite fun b/c you are a ways off the base and using snowmobiles. We had nice weather (sunny and 5-10F), but I can imagine when the fall and winter rolls around that it will be quite chilly
Today for lunch we had tasty chinese beef and broccoli and for dinner baby back ribs, which was a perfect dinner after spending 6 hours outside on the snowmobile
6/17/16
Meals today were gyros and falafel with all the greek fixins (hummus, greek cheese, greek yoghurt, kalimata olives, etc). Steak and amazing berry crumble pie with home made whipcream.
Today I prepared and launched my first ozonesonde (the large ozone balloon).
Tonight Dave the medic gave a really cool talk on his 4 months in Sierra Leon at an Ebola facility. It was super interesting. It was crazy all that went into the camp and how detailed they were and all the sanitation requirements. It's amazing how organized and set up they were considering how rushed and chaotic it all must have been.
Today for dinner was yummy Thai coconut curry! yum.
It was cold and very windy today. I road the fat tire bike out on the runway and was often having to plow through 2 feet deep drifts, which made it challenging. Today we practiced vault rescue. There are all these 30 foot deep vaults running under the station here that carry electric wires or fuel or store food. So there is a chance of a fall, and we practiced rescuing people from them via a tripod and via mechanical advantage (with pulleys)
6/16/16
Today we did one of our monthly tasks known as IceSat. The purpose of IceSat is to measure snow accumulation. There is a roughly 15 mile transect with 120 bamboo poles. We each take out a snowmobile to use for the transect. One of the snowmobile pulls a poly pod behind it, which is used as a shelter in case of inclement and also houses a very accurate GPS device from UNAVCO. It's so accurate that it measures sub centimeter. We stop at each of the bamboo poles for 10 seconds to allow the GPS to get a good altitude measure, which will tell you how much snow has accumulated since the last survey. We also measure the distance from the snow surface to a marked spot on each flag to give another metric of snow accumulation. The whole survey takes about 6 hours and is quite fun b/c you are a ways off the base and using snowmobiles. We had nice weather (sunny and 5-10F), but I can imagine when the fall and winter rolls around that it will be quite chilly
Today for lunch we had tasty chinese beef and broccoli and for dinner baby back ribs, which was a perfect dinner after spending 6 hours outside on the snowmobile
6/17/16
Meals today were gyros and falafel with all the greek fixins (hummus, greek cheese, greek yoghurt, kalimata olives, etc). Steak and amazing berry crumble pie with home made whipcream.
Today I prepared and launched my first ozonesonde (the large ozone balloon).
Tonight Dave the medic gave a really cool talk on his 4 months in Sierra Leon at an Ebola facility. It was super interesting. It was crazy all that went into the camp and how detailed they were and all the sanitation requirements. It's amazing how organized and set up they were considering how rushed and chaotic it all must have been.
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| me pulling the polypod |
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| vault rescue practice. That's me getting lifted up out of a vault after securing my neck b/c I would have had a MOI for spine with a fall into a vault. That's Kaija the camp manager in the photo with me |
2 comments:
You're making us all jealous with your food commentary!
Love the little, red pod.
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