July 31, 2019

New Drill Cable down into drill trench

Sverrir, Romain and Trevor moving the new deep drilling cable down into the drill trench

A heavy task to get done this year is to take the old deep drilling cable up from the trenches and bring the new cable down. The cables weigh several tons and it is a carefull job to get them down the not very straight inclined trench. Sverrir, Romain and Trevor did an excellent job! In general, most the camp has gone into a ‘logistic mode’ where more and more from camp have finalized their science programs and are packing or joining the surface logistic tasks. The mode is certainly turned towards – time to pack and go home.

What we did during the day:

1. PP measurements of bags 3328, 3329, 3354 (huge hole diameter depth) and 3680
2. Station for atmospheric moisture sampling and isotopic measurement is active.
3. Packing in the cfa cabin and the surface program tents
4. Calibration of Picarro in Drone tent
5. Working on the radar data
6. First test of L-band radar and test of VHF radar in new configuration
7. RAMAC radar image from EGRIP to 50 km upstream site
8. Work on the Rover
9. Successfully melting cores on the Lisa box.
10. Cleaning up in camp
11. Maintaining skidoos
12. Old deep drilling cable up of drill trench and new cable down
13. Documenting frozen food in cooks freezer

EGRIP population is 23

Weather: Wind 8-10 kts all day. Wind direction SW all day. Sunny broken overcast with temperatures between -11°C and -1 °C.

FL, Dorthe Dahl-Jensen

Sofi and Dorthe making RAMAC 500 MHZ accumulation radar measurements between EGRIP and the 50 km upstream site.