We had fun this week installing “deep” wells at Hubbard Brook in Watershed 3. We installed 6 wells two of which were completed in bedrock and the others in glacial drift, including a deep (~6.5 m) one in the glacial sediments. Here’s a short video of the drill rig that made it up into the […]
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Last week was an eventful week at Hubbard Brook on the hydropedology project. We began with Steve Arcone from the Army Corp CRREL helping us with ground-penetrating radar surveys of WS3. We ran lines all along the “weasel” road in WS3. This was our second go at GPR and we think it was a big
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Today we drilled 5.5 meters through glacial till and didn’t hit bedrock. What a blast! It was our first experience with our new Shaw Drill, and even though it rained, we drilled all day long. We selected a location along a ground-penetrating radar (GPR) transect we surveyed last March. The GPR survey suggested that we
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The field season is well underway up here at Hubbard Brook. Cody is finished with his total station surveys and has moved in to characterizing soils, while I have been installing lysimeters and otherwise preparing for a big storm sampling push. Another thing that has been on our minds, however, is validating some points on
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About a month ago, JP and Cody drove up to Hubbard Brook to spend their spring break running a ground-penetrating radar (GPR) survey in Watershed 3 to estimate depth to bedrock and glacial till thickness. Both JP and Cody’s projects are part of our Hydropedology project, which is focused on explaining the spatial and temporal variation
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