Arctic field season, probably

[jay]

It looks increasingly like I'll be doing some more fieldwork on Devon Island (76N, 90W) this July -- my travel orders have gone to NASA Headquarters for review, and we just resolved (in a telecon) the necessary technical collaborations.

Target dates are currently:
7/16 leave San Francisco, overnight in Edmonton (Wednesday dinner?)
7/17 Edmonton to Resolute (via Yellowknife and Cambridge Bay)
7/18 Resolute to Devon Island (chartered Twin Otter)

7/26 Devon Is. to Resolute to Edmonton (Saturday dinner?)
7/27 Edmonton (Sunday brunch?) to San Francisco

7/26 should be interesting travel-wise, that's 4 hops in one day (Twin Otter, Beech 1900, and two combi 737s)

This summer, I'm going to do more field geology site surveys with the Hamilton-Sundstrand spacesuit folks, adding data points to last summer's work.

Comments

[oceansedge.livejournal.com]

Ahhh thanks (grins).... mystery solved :)

Definately will follow up/pursue the volunteer thing. I'm still working out the logistics of the timing and available flights, and hence costs. Thanks for the link and the emails, and the welcome. I really hope I'm able to make it up this year. Although I suppose if I luck out I can always shoot for next year with more planning/lead time.

If I don't make it up there myself, I'll certainly be looking forward to your posts. LOL actually I'll be looking forward to them either way :)

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

By the way, what's a PITA? And Alain's actually at Univ. Guelph, not Hull (ulp!), in addition to being the CSA lead for the project.

You mentioned "your" airplanes... hmmm... do you fly them or fix them? If perchance the latter, the project is lacking our camp manager and chief mechanic (John Schutt) for the last 10 days of the season (he's off to Greenland for a couple of weeks). We don't repair aircraft (a bit of Twin Otter or helicopter maintenance, occasionally), but have generators and a fleet of ATVs that are frequently abused.

[oceansedge.livejournal.com]

PITA = Pain in the ass :)

My airplanes... (grins) unfortunately no, I don't fix em, and haven't finished my license yet for flying them. Actually I'm a dispatcher (we do all that nasty ugly paperwork and math stuff for the pilots... hey someone has to tell em where to go!). That makes me a performance calculation and weather geek.

I'm currently with Calm Air (www.calmair.com). We're a regional based out of Thompson, and covering Manitoba and the Kivalliq region of Nunavut (The Hudson Bay coast).