{"id":632,"date":"2016-04-26T14:16:34","date_gmt":"2016-04-26T20:16:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/firncover\/?p=632"},"modified":"2016-04-26T14:16:34","modified_gmt":"2016-04-26T20:16:34","slug":"busy-days-ahead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/firncover\/2016\/04\/26\/busy-days-ahead\/","title":{"rendered":"Busy Days Ahead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The FirnCover research team arrived safely via snowmobile at KAN-U, their first work site this campaign season. \u00a0The 67 km (41.6 mi) journey from &#8220;home base&#8221; camp, Dye-2, \u00a0took about 4 hours without any major difficulties. \u00a0Upon arrival, it was discovered that Mike&#8217;s firm compaction tower was still standing with no apparent physical damage despite its data transmission failure since September 2015. The first order of business today will be to diagnose and repair the transmission problem. They\u00a0plan to spend 3 working days here then head back to Dye-2 to resupply and\u00a0continue east to the EKT station.<\/p>\n<p>Other tasks laid out for the day include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Drill\u00a0a 16-20 m (52.5-65.6 ft) core to obtain the latest stratigraphy structure since the last melt season and install a new compaction instrument to wire to the existing tower<\/li>\n<li>Remove old IMAU (Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research)<br \/>\nautomatic weather station (AWS)<\/li>\n<li>Maintenance of GEUS (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.geus.dk\/geuspage-uk.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland<\/a>) weather station<\/li>\n<li>Permeability experiments &#8211; more details about this <a href=\"http:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/firncover\/2016\/04\/13\/the-unpolished-nature-of-research\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><\/li>\n<li>If time permits,\u00a0will utilize skis to\u00a0run a spectrometer around a 3 sq km (1.16 sq mi) area overlapping several MODIS satellite pixels to measure snow albedo\u00a0(snow reflectance). The goal is to ground truth reflectance (albedo) with\u00a0current MODIS satellite data.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"attachment_393\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/firncover\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2015\/06\/Achim2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-393\" class=\"wp-image-393 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/firncover\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2015\/06\/Achim2-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"Weather stations at KAN-U. Replacing old AWS tower with new one. Photo courtesy Achim Heilig, ACT 2015\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/firncover\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2015\/06\/Achim2-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/firncover\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2015\/06\/Achim2-624x467.jpg 624w, https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/firncover\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2015\/06\/Achim2.jpg 979w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-393\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Weather stations at KAN-U. Replacing old AWS tower with new one. Photo courtesy Achim Heilig, ACT 2015<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Temperatures are alarmingly high at this point in the season. Initial shallow digging about 10-20 cm (4-8 in) under the surface has revealed 1-3 cm (0.5-1.5 in) thick refrozen ice lenses formed from the recent melt the last couple of weeks. If temps continue to rise, there are <a href=\"http:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/firncover\/2016\/04\/12\/yesterdays-greenland-melt-a-troubling-precursor\/\" target=\"_blank\">concerns about whether drilling is possible<\/a> &#8211; \u00a0and logging cores is very difficult if they start to melt. They may need to drill cores in the early morning hours and bury them in the snow to keep them from melting before getting them processed and logged.<\/p>\n<p>The unprecedented melting this early in the field season is definitely contributing to a unique set of challenges this team has not yet encountered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The FirnCover research team arrived safely via snowmobile at KAN-U, their first work site this campaign season. \u00a0The 67 km (41.6 mi) journey from &#8220;home base&#8221; camp, Dye-2, \u00a0took about 4 hours without any major difficulties. \u00a0Upon arrival, it was discovered that Mike&#8217;s firm compaction tower was still standing with no apparent physical damage despite&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/firncover\/2016\/04\/26\/busy-days-ahead\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[57,58,5,56,13,59,62,16,55,61,9,60,12],"class_list":["post-632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-traverse","tag-cores","tag-drilling","tag-greenland","tag-ice","tag-ice-sheet","tag-melt","tag-satellite","tag-snowmobile","tag-temperatures","tag-tower","tag-traverse-2","tag-weather","tag-weather-station"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-04 09:31:41","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category"},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/firncover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/firncover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/firncover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/firncover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/firncover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=632"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/firncover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":640,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/firncover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632\/revisions\/640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/firncover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/firncover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/firncover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}