Picked Heike up from the airport in a strong blizzard on Tuesday evening. At times it was difficult to see further than the hood of the truck and the drifts across the beach road made it difficult to know where the road was, but we made it safely back to NARL and began pulling gear out and loading sleds. One sled was taken up by four 8-inch PVC pipes and four 4-foot by 8-foot sheets of white plastic. These were to to be frozen into the ice to study how sea ice micro structure and biota develop in the absence of bottom currents (see Heike’s research). Another sled was required to haul all the augers, drills, chainsaws, hand saws, shovels, ice chippers, tape measures, power cords, generators, ice tongs and plumb lines that were needed to do the job. After that retired to the NARL hotel hoping that the weather would improve.
Lesson of the day: Don’t tie down the sled until everything is on
