Sagwon MNT
Description - Data - Site Map - Photos
Site Description:
Location:
1.5 km NW of Dalton Highway
N 69 26' 0.3", W 148 40' 12.3"
Elevation:
300 km
Site Equipment/Installations:
- Climate/Soil conditions monitoring station (Romanovsky)
- 10 x 10 m grid
- Frost heave monitoring instrument - 1 meter bar
- 50 meter transect lines (2) - SMNT1 and SMNT2
Data collection/products:
- Thaw depths every 0.5 m for August 2000; June, July, August 2001
- Thaw depth map
- Aerial photos of site, grid, and transect lines
- Vegetation, microsite, and frost boil maps
- Vegetation releves associated with frost boils
- Soil profiles characterized and samples collected for laboratory analysis
Equipment list
- Air Temperature (2m) - 1986
- Soil Moisture @ 0.13, 0.31, and 0.55 m depths - 2000
- Soil Temperature @ surface, 0.03, 0.107, 0.182, 0.259, 0.336, 0.412, 0.487, 0.562, 0.715, 0.867, 1.062 m depths - 2000
- Snow Sensor - coming
- Wind Speed - coming
- Grids (2) 10x10m; Grid #1 (Eriophorum angustifolium dominated) and Grid #2 (Carex bigelowii dominated) - 8/2000, 8/2001
- Transect Lines (3) = SagMNT1, SagMNT2 - 6/2000
- Heaveometer (2) Heaveometer #1 (next to Grid #1) and Heaveometer #2 (between Grid #1 and Transect #1) - 8/2000, 8/2001