Field Report, Thursday, July 13, 2000.
HMP-2000 DAILY SUMMARY REPORT
Thursday, 13 July, 2000
by Pascal Lee, HMP PI.
Weather
The weather today was touch and go, with ceillings at or below 1000 ft, visibility between 0.5 and 10 miles, temperatures in the low 30s (+1°C) and winds in the 5-15 kts range, with snow flurries and occasional sleet showers.
Science and Exploration Research
Pascal, Charlie, Dr. Jeff and Terry left on a mid-morning traverse to collect soil core samples of the ancient lakebeds inside Haughton Crater and of the impact breccia rubble deposits on Wyle Hill, above Trinity Lake. They used spare soil coring augers from the Apollo program provided to the HMP c/o Dr. Jeff by co-Investigator Dr. David McKay of NASA JSC. Pascal, Charlie and Patrick later returned to Trinity Lake and to Wyle Hill to carry out additional surveys and sampling of the exposed breccia and to install a UV flux measurement package on the lake shore. Oz and Colleen continued their geologic surveys in the valley maze in the western part of the crater. They are finding very interesting fault features created when the crater itself was formed approximately 23 million years ago. Darlene, Marianne,Patrick and Margarita went to Cornell Lake and nearby Laval Lake and Astrobiology Funding Pond to sample their potential diatom records. Margarita ran the second webchat session of the HMP Education Program, starring Tony Griffith a.k.a. "Devon Ops" today. Steve put together new audio and video technology for the connection to Mission Control. Rick and Bruce set up their antenna array and checked out their newly-arrived NASA communications ATV. Tony coordinated the HMP field science team "replanning meeting" this evening and conducted a very succesful webchat simultaneously. Dr. Jeff and Terry programmed and delivered electronic Personal Information Carriers (PICs) to core field team members.
Life on Devon
John and Samson installed the camp water pump along the Lowell Canal, and also the water piping and hot water heater system. This now allows hot and cold running water to be available on demand in the kitchen in the SE end of St John's Cathedral. AC and Samson did carpentry and began putting together a washroom that will be adjacent to the kitchen. Marc C. found a website providing telephonic communications worldwide for free, which will make our lives a lot easier (and cheaper!) from now on. The Mars Society hab assembly team finished diassembling the aluminum platforms used in the paradrops. They were helped by Joannie and Joe. The pallet parts are being flown out to Resolute Bay and will eventually be recovered by the Marines. Two First Air Twin Otters brought in cargo and new visitors this evening. Our camp incinerator has now arrived, along with other anticipated payloads delivered by the Marines yesterday. Dr Kelly Snook, HMP Project Manager, visited the camp and Ozzie Courage from Resolute Bay examined the damaged equipment of the Mars Society Flashline Station project before they both returned to Resolute Bay. Dr. Jeff Jones, John Kunz and Dale Cameron also departed for Resolute. Newly arrived team members this evening include Lt. Col. George Martin, M.D., USAF (joining the HMP for the second year), Dr Rainer Effenhauser, M.D., flight surgeon at NASA JSC, Doug Butler, Biomedical Engineer at Wyle Labs, Sean Glenn, cameraman for the Discovery Channel USA team (and yes, he IS related to John!), and Ole Gjerstad and David de Yolpi from Discovery Channel Canada. Mark Webb cooked another great dinner: White Bean Tomato Soup, Tropical Chicken Teriyaki with white rice and peas, and Apricots in their syrup. Late this evening, celebrations were improvised to welcome our new visitors.
We are 31 people at camp tonight, including 27 HMP field team members: Rick Alena, Joe Amarualik, Marc Boucher, Doug Butler, Steve Braham, Charlie Cockell, Mark Connolly, Marianne Douglass, Rainer Effenhauser, Bruce Gilbaugh, Ole Gjerstad, Tony Griffith, Terry Guess, AC Hitch, Pascal Lee, Colleen Lenehan, Darlene Lim,, Margarita Marinova, George Martin, Samson Ootoovak, Gordon "Oz" Osinski, Joannie Pudluk, Sandy Salluviniq, John Schutt, Patrick Van Hove, Mark Webb, David de Yolpi.
4 Discovery Channel TV crew members: Tom Eichler, Sean Glenn, Andy Liebman, Karin Mainville.
Saturday at 16:00 CDT join us for an online chat as Samson Ootoovak a student and local Nuvanut resident answers your questions about his experiences..