Franklin Bluffs
Description - Data - Site Map - Photos
Site Description:
Location:
West of Dalton Highway
N 69 40' 29.5", W 148 41' 35.0"
Elevation:
90 m
Site Equipment/Installations:
- Climate/Soil conditions monitoring station (Romanovsky)
- 10 x 10 meter grid
- Frost heave monitoring instrument (1) - 1 meter bar
- 50 meter transect lines (2) - FB1 and FB 2
Data collection/products as of August 2001:
- Thaw depths every 0.5 m for August 2000, June, July, August 2001
- Thaw depth map
- Aerial photography of site, 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 anaylysis
Equipment list
- Air Temperature (2m) - 1986
- Soil Moisture @ 0.11, 0.27, 0.57 meter depths - 1999
- Soil Temperature @ surface, 0.08, 0.15, 0.23, 0.30, 0.38, 0.46, 0.53, 0.69, 0.84, 0.99 meter depths - 1986
- Snow Sensor - coming
- Wind Speed - coming
- Grid 10x10m (3) - Mesic (original grid), Wet, and Dry - 8/2000, 8/2001, 8/2001
- Transect Lines 50 m (3) = FB1, FB2, and FB3 - 6/2000, 6/2000, 7/2001
- Heaveometers (3) - #1/original, near Mesic grid; #2/near dry grid; #3/wet area - 8/2000, 8/2001, 8/2001