Operations information for the ARM North Slope of Alaska

Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Climate Research Facility North Slope of Alaska site Operations Information

On this page

• instrument status for operations
• contacts
• images and information about the site
• visitors
• events at the site

Instrument status for operations

• here (agvik and nanuna)
  • database of corrective maintenance and preventive maintenance records, as well as the shipping records
  • Corrective Maintenance (CMs) records
  • Preventive Maintenance (PMs, or daily rounds) records
  • weekly reports on instrument status
  • historical and current quick/rough plots of instrument data
  • weekly operations phone conference records about instruments
  • shipping form instructions
  • forms etc for instruments
  • images of Barrow site:
    • Barrow and the site from air
    • Barrow NARL and the ARM duplex
    • towers and instrument shelter
    • Instruments
    • Computers and instrumentation
• elsewhere / ARM wide
  • DSView at DMF (Data System View: snapshot=current hour, processing=last day, datastream=last month)
  • slow connection: DSView at Barrow
  • slow connection: DSView at Atqasuk
  • Browse plots of data at plot.dmf.arm.gov/plotbrowser
  • Create your own basic plot of data at plot.dmf.arm.gov/ncvweb/ncvweb.cgi
  • OSS database: Operations Status System

Contacts

• Site Manager Mark Ivey
• Science Liason Bernie Zak
• Site Technical Operations Manager Jeff Zirzow
• Operations Manager: Walter Brower
• Chief Operator-Barrow: Jimmy Ivanoff
• Chief Operator-Atqasuk: Doug Whiteman
• Site Visit Administrator: Valerie Sparks
• Administrative Assistant: Jean Lewis
• Response Team Member: Martin Stuefer
• Response Team Member: Hans Eide
• Balloon operators: Harold Ivanoff, Robin Mongoyuk, William Saganna

Visitors

• fill out Site Access Request for yourself at arm.gov, forms tab
• read the ES&H materials posted at http://www.arm.gov/sites/nsa/visit.stm
• if you want to bring an instrument, fill out a "preproposal" (pre-campaign) form whether or not you are requesting ARM funding
• if you get an OK to bring the instrument, fill out the "Instrument Support Request Form" that tells operations how your instrument will operate / what requirements it has
• fill out Computer Access Request for your instrument computer
• fill out Remote Computer Access Request if you want to leave the computer up and running, and connect to it after you leave the site
• if you ship anything, fill out a shipping record
• if you want to drive an ARM vehicle, contact Valerie Sparks

Events at the site

• who is visiting the ARM-NSA site calendar
• current campaigns (all sites)
• upcoming campaigns (all sites)

For more information, please contact Martin Stuefer at stuefer@gi.alaska.edu. Thank you!