Hank and Steve testing the genset crate
Batteries, Batteries... Steve looks at all our gear.
The UAF truck and trailer at the IGA food cache in Delta, AK.
Gear at the Dock
Batteries and Biodiesel
Crane operations
Crane Ops in valdez
darn no-see-ums
Moving the old genset out of the A-frame
Mark with come-along
Bee keeper rachel opens up the power panel
Tending to the Satellite dish
Uber-Steve with two batteries
The new Hugnes Net dish
Close quarters on the Auklet
Mark in his zen garden
Rachel in the CODAR Hut
Steve doesn't look happy, too many horse flies today
The new biodiesel gensets are running smooth
Oil Leak!
The pipe that broke and the new parts to replace it.
This is an overview of the hydraulic hose used to separate the oil pressure sending unit (top right) from the engine housing.
Close up of the hydraulic hose to engine housing connection.
close up of the oil pressure sending unit.
Getting ready to head out to Knowles Bay in the skiff.
Heading out in the skiff.
Beach Landing at Knowles Bay.
Captian David Janka and the support vessel the M/V Auklet
HF Radar Diva Rachel Potter
Steve Sweet and our media specialist Leslie
Breakfast time!
Our first day at Shelter Bay, bug city!
Steve and Rachel carry the CODAR to the site.
Steve assembling the Hughes Net dish in Shelter Bay.
David helps Rachel dig some aluminum schrapnel out of her finger.
Steve is ready for a wet day of work.
A view of the Shelter bay site looking to the North.
All the vibrations from the engine caused this stainless steel pipe to break at the point where my finger is pointing to.
Everyone's favorite taco bus in Cordova.
A view of Cordova from Mt. Eyak.
Ptarmigan!
Mark and I took an afternoon off and hiked up Mt. Eyak to check out the views. We were able to see Knowles Head quite clearly.
This is the view east from the summit of Mt. Eyak, Eyak Lake is in the foreground and in the distance, the Copper River flats.
Oil shipping supertanker anchored off of Knowles Head
Two supertankers anchored off Knowles Bay wait for the call in to the Valdez oil terminal.
Leslie onboard the Vixen just before leaving the dock.
Carter Olhman and John Pettigrew at the docks in Cordova.
The Vixen, a 32' longliner from Valdez, is the drifter chase boat
The Alana K is a bow picker (salmon gill net fishing vessel) from Cordova that will be used to deploy and recover the AUVs.
Ian waves goodbye before heading out on the Alana K.
Mark Moline gives a glider demo to a young oceanographer.
The Rutgers AUV onboard the Alana K. It doubles as a coffee table (see tail).
A Rutgers Slocum Glider with it's coffee table tail deployed.
On the way to the Knowles Bay CODAR site.
The Knowles Bay SeaSonde Antenna with our transport, a USCG HH-60 Jayhawk Helicopter hovering (note wheels).
Flight engineer Gus scouting the landing site at Shelter Bay.
Low Tide offloading at Knowles Bay
Weasels at the hut
Orcas with Knowles Head in the background
A pod of orcas.
The Whiskey Shakle
Steve is ready for a break.
The capacitor that worked wonders for our CODAR
The capacitor soldered in place on the FPB power supply cables.
How's that for a field repair?
Steve changes the oil on our Ample Genset
An animal chewed up our receive cables at Shelter Bay
Propane!
Propane tank valves
Carlon HDPE 2“ conduit
Carlon conduit
Crater Lake
The gap that leads to Orca from crater lake
Bubba the Proven 2.5 KW wind turbine before lowering it
Wow, it had a safe landing!
Now what!?
The fog rolls in over Orca Bay
Sunset from my hotel room
Looking east from the beach at the Knowles Bay fiberglass hut and genset.
The Knowles bay hut and genset
The hut sling is ready for picking
the genset has a sling attached
Looking east from the genset, the wind turbine and the mast is ~150 meters from where the photo is taken, just behind the island of trees in the center.
The mast and turbine
The mast has a sling attached and is ready to be picked.
The wind turbine has a sling attached and is ready to be picked.
the wind turbine sling
Looking west towards the hut from the wind turbine island of trees
Genset and Hut
Our hard working Alaskan fisherpeople
The battrery slide
Dave Janka with a load of propane
The hut comes apart
Hardly anything left
The trail to our site
The empty site
The crew makes one last pass through the empty Shelter Bay site
