Still warmer, somewhat cloudy. I no longer felt comfortable taking the rental car into the field.
Another amazing day for the crew! All towers down. All sensors packed. Base trailer mostly packed. Remaining tasks:
- remove concrete blocks (anchor points)
- remove all tower hardware and solar panels from the field (probably will use pickup to stage to the road, then load the Penske later.
- Penske loading to clean up the storage locker and stuff that we've staged at the base trailer.
- final sweep for experiment residue. (Noctis was cleaning up PI residue again today, and should be mostly done.)
- prep base trailer for transport (remove porch).
The ISS crew completed teardown of the field site, including bringing the sodar trailer to Ken's. They just have to finish packing at Ken's.
Soil notes:
- again, kept soils together with the mote. Mote 32 was from the corn site, mote 31 was grass
- during soil removal, checked that Gsoil white dots were up and that EC-5s were positioned lettering up (wrong, according to an email from Meter to Hendrik!)
One teardown issue: Bob noticed that the stub cable on several screw anchors (including both on one init guy wire) had partially slipped over the cap of the anchor. This is potentially very dangerous. We will need to double-check these anchors in the future.