Liquid N2 dewar at the site

There was a liquid N2 dewar delivery truck from 10:30 to 11:00 am local time today.

Reddy

Traffic at the Site

As mentioned in my email, our gas delivery truck was on site from 1135h-1203h (MDT).

Mike Flynn had a truck come pick up his equipment around 1500h (MDT).

Truck onsite this afternoon, 15-15:30

As Alex's email said, we were onsite this afternoon with a truck to drop boxes and pick up the incubator. Truck drove slowly along road north of tower, engine was on 15:00-15:03, 15:10-15:12, and departed site at 15:30.

Fire impact at site: 7:35 pm 8/19 - 5 am 8/20

Hi all,
According to our NO2 data, the fire plume arrived at the site at ~7:35 pm last night and was dissipated by 5 am this morning.

Fire near the site

There is a wildfire burning near Monument, CO. The fire is ~8 miles to the east and is on the other side of a ridge. It started at ~14:00 local time and at 18:30 local time we could smell it in Woodland Park. Some more information can be found here: http://www.kdvr.com/news/kdvr-beaver-creaak-fire-20111908,0,3687151.story and here: http://www.koaa.com/news/one-road-closure-caused-by-fire/

People on roof of trailer 8

We were on the roof of trailer 8 around the PAM chambers from 10:30-11:30 am local, 8/19/11.
Julie, Kyle, Bill, Danielle

Trucks on site this afternoon

Dear all,

First I must apologize for the inconvenience that I brought to you when I drove the car to the sampling site without informing in advance. Today there are two trucks on the site at ~1:30 PM and left at ~2:30 PM.

--
Best,
Luping Su
Graduate Student

SUNY Stony Brook

Fumes from our new Zero air source in Trailer # 1

We installed a new platinum catalyst zero air generator and had to bake it out which produced some fumes/smoke from 11:25 am - 12:25 pm (local time) in Trailer # 1. We had the trailer door open during this period.

Reddy

19 august -- cherry picker signal?

The TDCIMS has just moved into the horse trailer next to the PAM experiment. TOday I noticed my particle counts increasing by x10 (see attached fig), and then abruptly return to normal ambient levels (see attached fig). Julie mentioned that the cherry picker might have been on during that time. Do we have a log of cherry picker operation?

Truck to pick up MIT stuff was onsite this afternoon

Arrived 1:43 PM local time and left around 2:30 PM today. It kicked up a lot of dust.

delivery truck on site for Univ. Mainz group

large diesel truck on site between 16:00 and 16:35 to load up 6-7 crates from trailer 1.

4 August storm - car near site

during the severe thunderstorm on 4 August (the one that happened during the data meeting) I had to recover from a power glitch before heading home and drove a Ford Fusion hybrid (low emissions!) near the north meadow. The car never left the road and was parked about 50' N of the meadow at around 15:00 local time.

van near site

The NCAR white van was making a gas cylinder delivery near the north meadow at 11:15 local time. It never left the dirt road.

Truck at Site

US Welding Co. gas delivery truck is on site from 9:30-10a

Truck onsite

Tues, 8/16 9:45 AM. USWelding truck leaves site. I'm told it arrived before 8:30.

Car Onsite

14 August, ~18:30 (in), ~20:00 (out). CU Monson Group drove car onto site up back road to near water study area.

Indiana Group packs up.

11 August: Indiana Group packed up. Arrive at 10:11am and  left at 2:15pm (LT). They comment "Driving slowly!!"

Forest Service Vehicle drove up road near site at 2:02pm, taking a right at the fork. The vehicle idled near the site for about 5 minutes, before leaving around 2:10. The driver worked for the forest service fire department, and was evaluating our site in case of fire.

Pick-up truck drives through site.

8/14, 12:50: Truck (Forest Service?) drives through site.

Possible Fire East of Lodge

At ~9:35 AM MDT a plume of smoke was observed about a mile behind the lodge and there was a slight smell of burning at the lodge. A Teller County Sheriff vehicle investigated, and the plume was not seen again. More information to follow(?).

Solvent use

7:30-7:45 Refilled reservoir in TAG. Exposed deuterated acetone to air inside Seatainer #3.

Horse Trailer 6 moved to near Rental Trailer 8.

Horse Trailer 6 moved to near Rental Trailer 8 (for future sampling of PAM outflow by TD-CIMS). Alex H.'s truck used/running at 15:13-15:15, 15:30-15:40, & 15:55-15:57.

Wedding up the road from the site

There is a wedding down the road from the site.  Many vehicles are driving to the site, then turning around when they realize it's not a wedding.  At least 5 cars seen coming to the site between 1630-1700h. Many more vehicles are traveling the logging road. 

trivia night in wp, emissions may reach the site...

road repair near site entrance

An earth mover is repairing the road at the entrance of the site, some BC emissions.

WD-40 used on Horsetrailer 5

WD-40 used on Horsetrailer#5 at 11:55 PM (9 Aug, 2011) (to loosen back door to move bioaerosol incubator from HT#6).

Road Work on US67 2.5 - 5 miles north of site

All day there was road work on UC67starting 2.5 miles north of site, extending to 5 miles north of site. Work characterized as "chip seal". Tar applied in thin layer, then small gravel, then tar/sealant. A bit of dust and tar smell. Appears that wind was primarily from the NW throughout afternoon (not north). PTRMS detected anything? (workers told us they would be done today 8/9/11).

US Welding delivery earlier today

The US Welding delivery truck arrived at 10 am MDT and left about an hour later.

Truck Traffic at site

At ~15:50 MDT a tow truck drove up the road, and then went right at the fork and south of the site to the stuck cherry picker. At ~16:10 the tow truck departed by the same route. At 16:25 the cherry picker drove down to the site and stopped over by trailer #3 and the horse trailer.

Prius at the site

At roughly 11:10 AM MDT a Prius drove up towards the site, and then went right at the fork onto the road that goes around the south side of the site.

BEAR SIGHTING

A bear was sighted at the field site about ten minutes ago.

Butanol - small contained spill inside Trailer #10

Tues 8/2 10:46am - Some butanol (approx. 100 mL) spilled from our CPC fill/drain bottles into the plastic bag we were using as a secondary container in trailer #10. The bag was sealed up and taken off-site to the lodge area for clean up.

Trace gasses back on line as of Saturday 7/30/2011 ~5pm

NO analyzer is down, but inlet was plugged so the other measurements on the profiler system (CO2, O3, CO, SO2) are OK. A few hours of "bad" data on Saturday afternoon (~2-5pm MDT).

US Welding delivery truck

Truck arrived about 30 minutes ago.

NOx analyzer off; affecting other trace gas measurements

NOx analyzer on profiler system seems to have overheated shortly after noon today (7/30/2011) and is currently off. Other measurements (SO2, O3, CO, etc.) on the profiler system are suspect until the inlet can be plugged.

People on roof of trailer 8

Troubleshooting mystery nitrate peaks, we were on the roof of trailer 8:
~ 5:30-6 pm Thurs 7/28
~11-12:30 pm and 7-7:30 pm Fri 7/29
briefly changed some lines ~ 2:40 pm Sat 7/30

July 29. ~Car arrived and came on site between 8:30 and 9:00am and departed around 12:30pm

2011/7/29 Reservoir refill

7:05-7:15 Refilled reservoir on TAG. Exposed deuterated acetone to air inside Seatainer #3.

NH3 heater burn-off again

NH3 heater conditioning, starting 1 pm 7/28/11. Hope this will be all it takes and we can soon stop stinking up the southwest quadrant of the BEACHON site!

The cylinder truck from US Welding left at 10:13 local time. A picture of the UCAR truck (the other vehicle that arrived today) is attached. The UCAR truck was parked by Trailer #2.

July 28. ~9:15 Gas truck arrives onsite. ~9:35 A second truck arrives.

10 - 15ml Methanol spill around 4:45pm local time in Trailer # 1.

New heater "burn-off", 7/27 4:45 pm

New NH3 converter oven on for the first time - judging by the stink it emitted some mystery volatiles for ~ 15 minutes. Sorry!

People on roof of trailer 8

2:15-3:15 pm Wednesday 7/27

NO3 PAM now has N2O5 injection behind the screen, rather than in front.

Honda Insight

14:50h - An undocumented Honda Insight is parked in the middle of the field site.  When did it arrive?  I know it's SULEV, does that mean we don't have to document?  :)

People on roof of trailer 8

Fry/Zarzana on roof of trailer 8 10:15-11:45 AM

Vented refrigerant

July 25, ~5 PM. A small amount of refrigerant was vented while charging the CSU IN instrument.

14:56 Local time: A Chevy pickup from IREA came to the site and then left almost immediately.

Clean Johns!!

~1300h Verified clean portta-pots!!  Which means btw 1:00h and 13:00h today a waste truck clean out the johnny on the spot. 

Liquid N2 Truck

The liquid N2 truck left the site at 11:28 am local time. Briefly stopped at Trailer#1 to deliver a dewar.

At 10:15 AM MDT the US Welding truck showed up and parked by trailer #3.

7/24 Evening - Isopropanol use

The MPIC group used a small amount of isopropanol for cleaning of biological sampling equipment that could not be easily moved. Specific times will be updated here later. Further cleanings are planned to be performed at the lab across the road.

7/24 1:12 pm Large Penske Truck on Site

A large Penske (moving) truck drove around the back perimeter of the site and towards the main exit.

TAG-AMS instrument delivery

2011/7/23 19:50-20:50 24-ft truck delivered instrument to seatainer #3 --Arthur

LANL group and cars arrive on site

The Los Alamos group arrived at 16:15 MST (17:15 local time) to unpack their stuff into #10.

7/23 5:10pm Truck on Site & Methanol

~5:10 pm: White truck on site to deliver refrigerator. Also transported closed bottle of methanol.

7/23 ~15:30 - Truck on site

The MPIC group drove our large pick-up truck (gasoline) to the small horse trailers at approximately 3:30 pm today for an instrument delivery. The truck was moved a couple times and left ~5:00 pm.

Possibly vented a few ppb of N2O5 on the roof of trailer 8 at 1:37. A valve was not connected properly. The exhaust flow on the PAM chamber was on, but the instrument flow was not. The N2O5/NO3 instrument next to the PAM saw a very short (>4 sec) spike in NO3 (~200 ppt) and N2O5 (~300 ppt)

Car at Site

~12:40h white truck on site to deliver instruments and move filter sampler.

Heptane vial

Briefly opened a small vial containing heptane at ~11:40 am. The vial was opened inside a duct exhausting to a large charcoal filter to reduce impact as much as possible.

Dry Ice

At 11:00 AM we moved some dry ice from the parking lot to trailer 7 and then we moved about 2/3 of the way back to the parking lot to crush the ice. In the future we will be crushing the dry ice offsite.
Kyle Zarzana and Julie Fry

7/22 5:30 pm Driving Near Site

Bill Dube et al pulled up to the site at 5:30 pm to drop off filter samplers.

Branch Trimming

4:33-4:35PM 20 July: snipped a few small Ponderosa branches above ST8 (Kyle Zarzana)

July 20, 2011 11:01 PM

Dry ICE

Julie said...

11:30 am 7/20/11: We moved some dry ice around in trailer 7. This will happen regularly to preserve N2O5 calibration samples. If anyone is measuring CO2 and this was detectable, let us know and we will adjust our transfer procedure! Julie Fry / Kyle Zarzana / Bill Dube / Danielle Draper

July 20, 2011 10:39 PM

Cars at Site

2011-07-22 13:25h

There were about 5-6 cars driving to/from and parked at the site yesterday. Please try to minimize car traffic beyond the parking area by the porta pot as we are actively sampling. If you do drive to the site please post on this blog so we can track traffic.

Thanks, Amber

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