Principal Investigator Howie Epstein checks on data loggers in May at the snow fence near Samuel Simmonds Memorial Hospital. (Credit: Valentina Ekimova)
Field Notes
May 2025
Sensor Reset
Maintaining the Utqiaġvik Sensor Array includes routine tasks like changing batteries and replacing sensors that have stopped communicating. We have also been working to make the network more robust.
PI Howie Epstein and the Environmental Sciences and Data Science teams are investigating what types and numbers of sensors to install to enhance the Utqiaġvik Sensor Array
over the next year.
A more expensive Cambell logger installed to measure soil temperature and moisture at the Barrow Environmental Observatory (BEO) operated well over the past winter. The team is also testing some HOBO direct loggers (that require a wired connection to download data) to see if they perform better than the wireless loggers. To be continued...