ALERT REPORT: Week 13. Sunday March 25, 2007 - Saturday March 31, 2007 Prepared: Sunday April 1, 2007 ***********Highlights of the Week*************** - 084j and 087j Two wind storms cover the entrances of the lab. Lots of snow shoveling. - 085j Two black carbon filters were sent in the Weekly envelope by accident (1 sample and 1 blank) - 1 P-5 gas tank left - 3 bottles of NaOH left (six weeks) after this coming monday - 2 weeks of U of H flasks left ***********Highlights of the Week*************** THINGS WE NEED: *The items will be left on the list until they are physically received in Alert.* - Mop Bucket - Large latex gloves - Double sided velcro - Set of jumper cables - Stirer oil for NaOH motor and hollow glass shaft. NaOH spare motor - NaOH solution. 3 bottles left (six weeks) after this coming monday - U of H flasks - Complete Burn Kit and First Aid Kit - Teflon tape to seal taoxics glass bottles Please note: Inventories are current as of the date the report is written unless stated otherwise. AEROSOL PROGRAM Aethalometer 1 Last blank on day 057j, 2007. O.K. PSAP Program N/A Nephelometer - 085j replaced impactor pump with a single stage at 1620z. Flow is approximately 29.8 l/min - 085j Two black carbon filters were sent in the Weekly envelope by accident (1 sample and 1 blank) N/A CNC Counter O.K. Alert High Volume Sampler O.K. Last Blank: 078j, 2006 7 filter(s) in inventory Toxics Sampler O.K. 11 PUF filters, 3 Blank(s), 16 GFF(s) 5 Toxics case(s) remaining in inventory Last blank: 078j, 2007. PS-1 PUF Sampler - 085j another filter sampling this week. It will be stopped this coming monday O.K. 6 filters remaining in inventory GAPS Network Passive sampling program - 090j Changed PUF disk filters for sites 1a) and 1b) O.K. MET PROGRAM Ambient Temperature Sensor [Campbell 107F] O.K. Stevenson Screen and Dew Cells O.K. Tall Tower 10m and Lab Platform 10m RM Young Wind Sensors O.K. GAS PROGRAM NDIR O.K. CAPMoN Ozone TEI 49C #49C-73452-373 O.K. CAPMoN Ozone Teco #347 - Offline CAPMoN Ozone Calibration Unit O.K. PAN GC - 089j Installed NOx burner in rail filter and valve box. Box was taken down and inside the lab at 1442z. Changed filters and sealed some edges with silicone (snow was getting in). Left inside the lab to dry - 090j Placed rail filter and valve box back in place at 1631 O.K. CH4/CO2/N2O/SF6/CO GC - 084j 1 P-5 tank left. O.K. CFC 11, 12, 13 GC O.K. Complete Gas Tank Inventory - current as of 085j, 2007 Pump Room (Spares) - Nitrogen: 3 steel tanks - Argon: 8 Steel tanks, 10 aluminum tanks - P-5: 1 aluminum tanks - Ultra Zero Air: 1 steel tank - Hydrogen: 2 steel tanks - He: 1 steel tank, 1 aluminum tanks - CO2 tanks: 1 Steel tank, 1 aluminum for Neph. 1 CO2 aluminum tank for NDIR - HeXe:1 steel tank Pump Room (in use or connected as spares) - Nitrogen: 1 steel (not in use) - Zero Air: 1 steel, 1 aluminum (not in use) - Hydrogen: 1 steel (not in use) - P-5: 1 aluminum (in use) - Argon: 1 steel (in use) - CO2: 1 aluminum (in use for Nephelometer) - CFC WH aluminum tank - 6890 WH aluminum tank - 6890 T aluminum tank Old Lab (PAN GC Tanks) - Zero Air: 2 Steel tanks (not in use. Spares) - Nitrogen: 2 steel tanks (not in use. Spares) - NO: 1 aluminum tank - He: 1 aluminum - HeXe: 1 small steel tank Red Shed Storage - 7 Hydrogen steel tanks - 5 Zero Air steel tanks Office (loading dock, for shipping or disposal) - 2 Steel tanks for disposal or shipping (1 Zero Air, 1 He) - 1 Helium aluminum and 1 Argon aluminum empty to be shipped MERCURY PROGRAM Ambient air (007): - 084j (last week) Instrument powered off for gold cartridge replacement at 1840z and restarted at 1907z - 085j Adjusted lamp voltage at 1528z. New Voltage: 9.22 V. Recalibrated - 087j Reassembled gold cartridges to check for leaks. Power off from 2203z to 2222z O.K. Ambient air (012): - 084j (last week) Instrument powered off for gold cartridge replacement at 1910z and restarted at 1929z O.K. RGM Unit, 1130 0016, 2537A 040: - 085j Offline at 1715 for the following changes: - Soda Lime trap - RPF - Denuder - Fritz impactor - Quartz filter - Teflon zero - All heating on at 1751z - All cooling on at 1820z - All switches to auto at 1854z - 088j Change method in controller to user-1 at 1840z. Method was modified to 2 hour sampling (sampling cycles to 24 instead of 36) - Changed scale factor in proper fields from 2.778 to 4.167. - Instrument back on at 1851z - 089 Checking glassware system for leaks and changed quartz filter at 1426z. Instrument off line at 1426z - All heating at 1436z - All cooling on at 1448z - all switches to auto at 1547z O.K. DENUDER INVENTORY = 1 cases: 1 denuder. O.K. RDMQ 2007QC for 007 and 012 complete up to 029 OTHER PROGRAMS Health Canada Precipitation Collector Changed: 061j Inventory: 7 month(s) Health Canada Thermo-Luminescence Detector Changed: 001j, 2007. Brewers 019: O.K. 029: O.K. INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS Bi-weekly 14C/12C-CO2 Sample for U. of Heidelberg Last Sample: 078j O.K. Inventory: 4 bottle(s), 9 week(s) Radon Monitor O.K. Last filter change: Day 064j. DOAS System - 085j Reseted DOAS laptop and restarted DOASIS program at 1826z - 087j Reseted DOAS laptop and restarted DOASIS program at 1855z O.K. IGLOOLIK Sampler O.K. NOAA SEARCH O.K. NOAA ETL O.K. ***************FLASKING REPORT************** - Flasking this week was done on wednesday March 28, winds went up to about 18 m/s. NOAA 007 were done outside while the holding the pump case. Two flasks broke after they were sampled (due to pressure and brittleness and not for misshandling). An old spare set of two flasks were used to sample. - Running low on U of H flasks, two weeks of flasks left. ***************FLASKING REPORT************** Sampling Conditions: -22.7 C, 16.5 m/s, R.H. 51.5%, 977.8 mbar. Flasks sampled: Scripps 5L glass greased stopcock, evacuated: M5029, M5030 Inventory MSC Ocean Chemistry (Victoria), I.O.S.: 5091, 5092 Inventory Japanese Halocarbon, steel 5L: NA Inventory NOAA 2.5L 007 pressurized: 0, 2268-99, 3345-99, 3346-99 Inventory MSC 2L glass double valve pressurized: P2-63, P2-64 Inventory NOAA stainless steel 850mL/2.5L pressurized: 5009L, 5010R Inventory CSIRO/MSC 2L glass, pressurized: P2-, P2- Inventory SCRIPPS 3 X 5L Oxygen: NA Inventory PRL VOC, pressurized: AL016 Inventory U of Heidelberg 1L glass pressurized: 1167-25, 2057-25 Inventory Max Planck Institute - BGC: TT 092, TT 070,TT 096 Inventory COMPUTERS - 083j High winds storm this day that finally died next day in the morning. Communications with the lab server could not be established OK. TRANSPORTATION Fuel Consumption: February: 238 L GMC (EC Rider) - 060j Truck's transmission broke down while on the way to the lab. Vehicle out of comission New Ford (No name yet. Tentative name: Red Rover) - 086j Truck went into the shop for maintenance. Greased the track wheels and reattached stabilizer arm (front, passanger side) O.K. BUILDINGS O.K. SHIPPING Shipping Received: Shipping Sent: 26/03/07 - 1 Triwall with: - 2 boxes of NOAA SS - 1 box of SCRIPPS 3x5 L - 1 box of Japanese - 2 boxes of NOAA 007 - 2 boxes of SCRIPPS 5L - 1 case of PRL - 2 cases of MPI 29/03/07 - 1 Pallet with 5 cylinders - 2 He aluminum (QMPAN 006, QMPAN 007) - 1 P-5 gas (GGML 010) - 1 CO2 tank (AES 212) - 1 Argon aluminum (AES 711) - 1 Pallet with two crates: - 2AP tracker (NOAA) - Tools (NOAA Dave Longernecker, Rob Albee) MAIL Mail Received: Mail Sent: 27/03/07 - Weekly envelope: - 4 aethelometer filters (Weeks 11 and 12) - 2 Black Carbons (1 sample and 1 blank) Filters sent accidentaly Alert Weekly News31/03/2007 4:35PM This week in Alert we had some wild weather. The winds on wednesday were up to 20 m/s, which made outdoor flasking a little difficult. Friday was an HOC mugin, which was quiet, but still fun. Saturday we had a fancy dinner. The food was excellent, and the dessert, which was homemade cheesecake was amazing. The Fish are great, and the sun is almost here 24 hours, it is still getting a little "dark" at night. There are rumours of a togo party this weekend.... hopefully it will happen!!!