Hey Everyone,
Only a quick note, have to enter data yet (yep its 11:30pm and I've been up since 6:30) but that is okay.
Okay, yesterday we got in a 2pm, got assigned our rooms, did a briefing, had supper and then unpacked/loaded the skidoo's/sleds to get ready to go out this morning and set up a few of our buoys to test that they work before we deploy them next week.
Everything was working normally and it looked good. Got to bed around 1:30 or so. Up at 6:30, got dressed, ate breakfast and went to get the skidoos ready to go. Left by 9:30. On site by 10:00
Alec, Anne and I performed our transect measurements of ice thickness, snow depth, snow surface height and Anne walked around with an electromagnetic induction device that we use to measure ice thickness.
Ben and Ido were going to core 18 cores today at two sites, but both coring engines failed. We also had many difficulties with another motor for drilling 6 inch holes for an experiment Ido is doing. Finally we also had one skidoo break down, leaving us with three, and then another one of those had a steering failure. Ben and I fixed this when Ben suggested using a piece of wood (bamboo pole we use to hold survey measuring tapes in place) to tie the one ski to the other. It worked okay, well enough for us to get back by 7pm, then a quick dinner and then setting up buoys until about 10:45, now it is time for data entry. Okay talk to you soon
BYE
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