.: Thermastring

Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Thermastring

4 days prior to the NY state departure we're having a lot of fun building a thermistor string called : thermastring! Today we're doing the calibration of the temperature sensors! It's 9:40pm, we're still in the lab trying to decrease the temperature below -15°C! Hard job! But, the Geology building is very nice (Awesome toilets!) compared to OSH!!

Clement, Evan, Annie and Joel!

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marraineApril 9, 2010 at 12:34 PM
Tout à l'air presque irréel!! bravo à toi et à l'équipe!! Gros bisous mon grand , je pense bien fort à toi.Marraine.
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ClementApril 12, 2010 at 4:47 PM
Coucou Marraine! Ca fait plaisir de voir que tu suis le blog :) On est toujours bloqué à la base à l'heure qu'il est mais on espere partir demain si le temps est plus clément! Gros bisous
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Arctic Circle Traverse 2011

Recent atmospheric model results have indicated that the southeast portion of the Greenland Ice Sheet receives nearly 5 times more snow than the ice-sheet-wide mean. This would suggest that an additional 90 billion tons of ice must be added to the Greenland Ice Sheet mass budget. However, such high snowfall rates have never been observed in Greenland before. Thus it is important to confirm that these high accumulation peaks actually do exist. This is the goal of the Arctic Circle Traverse. In 2010, we drilled three cores in the southeast down to an elevation of 1725m and found accumulation rates of 1.8 m w.eq. (more snow than Alta!). In 2011 we plan to drill 4 more cores, and collect more than 300 km of radar profiles. We depart for Greenland on March 28th. Updates on the traverse will be kept on this blog as well as http://bprc.osu.edu/wiki/ACT. This year, we have arranged a real-time GPS satellite uplink that will map our position and other information every minute. The link to the mapping site is: http://www.datatransport.org/act/monitor Thanks for following and wish us luck!

Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Thermastring

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