Field Report, Tuesday, July 11, 2000.
HMP-2000 DAILY SUMMARY REPORT
Monday, 11 July, 2000
by Pascal Lee, HMP PI.
Weather
The weather is still cold and windy, low 30s (+1°C) and 15-25 kts,
with frequent snow flurries and sleet. Based on our experience
at Haughton over the past 3 summers, this is unseasonably cold.
A low cloud deck raced overhead all day with only a few breaks of
blue sky.
Science and Exploration Research
Oz and Colleen continued their geologic field observations in the
valley maze in the western part of the Haughton impact structure.
Charlie, Darlene, Marianne and Patrick went on a diatom reconnaissance
and sampling traverse to Lake Cornell and other nearby ponds.
Pascal unpacked and tested the HMP's rock polishing unit in the geology
tent.
Tony successfully interacted with the ExPOC at Mission Control Center in
Houston in spite of a downed comms router at lower latitudes. He also
conducted the first briefing of the HMP science field team on uplinked data
from the ExPOC in response to yesterday's massive downlink.
Dr. Jeff and Terry ran a successful telemedicine experiment with Mark Connolly.
Jeff and Pascal interacted with the Science Ops Officer (Chris Guidi) and
the HMP Science Rep (Dr. Melissa Lane) at the ExPOC this afternoon.
Dr. David McKay joined as new co-I of the HMP science team to work with
Pascal and Charlie on some aspects of the geology and paleobiology of
Haughton.
Margarita successfully ran the first webchat session of the HMP Education
program. Dr. Jeff was the chat guest of the day.
Life on Devon
We all tried to keep warm!
Pascal had several meetings with team members John S., Marc B,
Dr. Jeff, and Kurt.
John and AC managed the camp and worked on the tent door zippers.
The Mars Society hab assembly team diassembled the aluminum
pallettes used in the paradrops on Haynes Ridge to ready them for return.
They were helped by Joannie, Joe and Sandy.
Andy and his Discovery Channel team worked on their comms link and filmed
the telemedicine experiment.
Mark Webb organized the new kitchen in "St John's Cathedral", our new
48 ft-long tent inaugurated yesterday. Dinner menu this evening: Split pea
soup,
Sauteed Chicken breasts with garlic white sauce and couscous, Jello with
mandarin
oranges.
Dr. Jeff gave a great after dinner talk on "Space Medecine on a Human
Mission to Mars" .
We are 31 people at camp tonight, including: 22 HMP field team members: Rick Alena, Joe Amarualik, Marc Boucher, Steve Braham, Charlie Cockell Mark Connolly, Marianne Douglass, Jeff Jones, Bruce Gilbaugh, Tony Griffith, Terry Guess AC Hitch, Pascal Lee, Colleen Lenehan, Darlene Lim, Margarita Marinova, Gordon "Oz" Osinski, Joannie Pudluk, Sandy Salluviniq, John Schutt, Patrick Van Hove, Mark Webb.
5 Mars Society hab assembly team members:
Dale Cameron, Wayne Cassell, John Kunz, Kurt Micheels, Chester Snider
4 Discovery Channel TV crew members: Tom Eichler, Andy Liebman, Karin Mainville, Daren Parko