| Field Notes 2004 |
This year there are two scientific teams. Team #1 is from the University of Washington, including Mike Steele, Roger Andersen, Andy Heiberg, and Wendy Ermold. Their pilot is John Innis. |
Team #2 is from the Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory and Scripps Institute of Oceanography. Their pilot is Paul Rask. |
The destination is Alert, a military base on Ellesmere Island, Canada... |
The route traveled between Seattle, WA and Alert.
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The teams cought up with most of their gear in Resolute. |
The teams, along with their gear were loaded into a Hawker in Resolute... |
Group photo of the teams headed to lLert. Left to right: Roger, Bill, Wendy, Mike, Bob and Richard (Dale took the picture). |
The Hawker with all the gear to go to Alert. |
The scientific teams arrive in Alert, and are well-received by the Canadian military occupants...
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Inspecting the Niskin bottles before the first flight. |
Testing the Jiffy drill. |
This is a Seabird CTD with an oxygen sensor. Roger hand-carried the oxygen
sensor, and reinstalled it in Alert. |
Mike with the eXpendable Current Profiler (XCP). |
The first flight into the field. Step 1: Load the helicopter. Finding room for everything is a puzzle. |
Step 2: Controlling preflight excitement is difficult.
(especially for Mike) |
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Roger, loading
an ice chisel into the helicopter. |
Step 3: Find water.We were unable to find open leads this year. Instead, we looked for leads which had frozen over with ice thin enough to chip... |
Mike chipping a hole. |
John skims slush off the hole to... |
Step 4: CTD cast. The CDT is attached to the winch cable and... |
The hole where the CTD enters the water. |
Step 5: XCP cast. About 30 seconds after the XCP is tossed into the... |
Step 6: Water sample. A Niskin bottle is used to collect a water
sample... |
The bottle is retrieved, and the water.. |
Measurements were taken at 12 locations over 4 days. |
Roger's GPS tracked the path of the helicopter flights. |
Fog rolled in on the second day in the field while Roger, John, and I
worked. Keeping an eye on the
ground... |
Time to pack it in. All our gear on... |
The last dinner in Alert. |
Lobsters. Yum. |
The UW team before flying out. |
