Jacquie arrived yesterday, and we had a busy day of improving instrumentation to prepare for the IOP and collecting more soil samples.  The morning weather was overcast with a marine layer that persisted over the water for most of the day. Inland was warm and sunny. 

We started  with a trip to S9 to replace the TP01, and collect a soil sample.  Otherwise the site was in order. 

We continued to S16  (little pine) with a long drive up the winding road.  We used the green wagon again to cart a full load of soil equipment, winch, EC150, ladder and tools to the site. The green wagon comes through again, although it did try to run over us on the way down.  We lowered the boom and replaced the EC150 (picture below).  The new CO2 and H2O numbers looked much better (we are no longer inexplicably sinking CO2 and water vapor, though this may have provided an excellent solution to mitigating CO2 concentrations).  We took a soil sample and them remembered to take the boom angle. 

Lastly, we stopped by S1 - since Jacquie notice the TRH fan reporting 0.  We replaced the housing, and the fan sprang back to life.  A soil sample was taken here also - for a total of three soil samples in the third round of soils.


Road up to Little Pine:


New EC150:



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  1. Jacquelyn Witte

    Action shots at S16 (Little Pine) to replace the gas analyzer. That is my hand at the bottom (proof that I did something). 



    S1 (Station 18) - replacing the TRH casing.