Field Notes

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Tonzi: 2012-12-19 12:00:00 (DOY 354)
Author: Joe Verfaillie
Others: Dennis

Summary: Installed LED sensor, serviced CO2 profile and re-installed LI800, changed CR1000 programs, restarted derailed tram, fixed fence wires.

Tonzi
2012-12-19

I arrived about 12pm with Dennis. It was a very clear and cool day with little to no breeze. There was ice on the puddles on the way up in the morning and snow visible on the mountain tops. The ground seemed wetter with more and deeper puddles. Someone had left deep tire tracks in the wet spot on the road near the tower. We saw Mr. Tonzi on the way in. He was walking to his neighbors for a ride since his truck was damaged in an accident the other day.

The tram had derail, but seemed to run okay after a reset.

I installed the LED sensor on the radiation boom at the tower top. The last two channels were reading negative, but I decided to leave it to see how the other channels do. No changes to the CR23X6 program since those were done last time.

Dennis helped blow the CO2 profile lines with compressed air and change the filters. He then reinstalled the Li800 and calibrated it. I added a filter back into the holder inside the box. It was running with reasonable numbers when we left.

I changed the programs on the Tower and Floor CR1000s. I removed the cards, uploaded the new programs and then put in new cards. All seemed well. The new program hopefully fixes a problem were bogus data was getting dumped into the sonic data stream when no or bad messages were received from the sonic.

Dennis restarted the Floor computer when he could not see the screen. I disabled the serial mouse on reboot.

We could not connect to the soil CO2 CR23x5. The data logger seemed like it was running though.

Dennis fixed a short in the fence around the floor site and we fixed a broken wire on the fence around the soil CO2 site.

Dennis cleaned the z-cam windows.

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