Deadhorse
Description - Data - Site Map - Photos
Site Description:
Location:
South of Deadhorse, west side of Dalton Highway
N 70 09' 42.4", W 148 27' 49.6"
Elevation:
15 m
Site Equipment/Installations:
- Climate/soil conditions monitoring station (Romanovsky)
- 10 x 10 m grid
- Frost-heave monitoring instrument (1) - 1 meter bar
- 50 meter transect lines (2) - DH1 and DH2
Data collection/products:
- Thaw depths every 0.5 meter for August 2000, June, July, August 2001
- Thaw depth map
- Aerial photography of sites, grid, and transect lines
- Vegetation map, microsite map, frost boil map
- Vegetation releves associated with frost boils
- Soil profiles characterized and samples collected for laboratory analysis
Releves
- Releve 1a frost boil
- Releve 1b frost boil
- Releve 1c frost boil
- Interfrost boil vegetation....other veg types at site to add below
Equipment list
- Air Temperature (2m) - 1986
- Soil Moisture @ 0.14, 0.26, 0.55 depths (m) -1999
- Soil Temperature @ surface, 0.08, 0.15, 0.23, 0.30, 0.38, 0.46, 0.53, 0.69, 0.84, 0.99 depths (m) - 1986
- Snow Sensor - not yet
- Wind Speed - not yet
- Grid 10x10m (1) - 8/2000
- Transect Lines 50 m (2) = DH1,DH2 - 6/2000
- Heaveometers (3) - Mesic (original), Wet, and Dry - 8/2000, 8/2001, 8/2001