Bemidji Crude-Oil Project
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July 21-31, 2003 field work:
![](./smallpics/field2003/Group3.jpg) Group
photo of the research team in front of the
field tent and drill rig.
![](./smallpics/field2003/Coring%20at%20north%20pool.jpg) Coring
at the north pool near well 533.
![](./smallpics/field2003/Barbara%20and%20Ean.jpg) Barbara
Bekins and Ean Warren preparing media in the
MSEA trailer.
![](./smallpics/field2003/Ean%20innoculating%20media2.jpg) Ean
inoculating samples in the MSEA trailer.
![](./smallpics/field2003/Barbara%20preparing%20sample.jpg) Barbara
processing a soil core outside the MSEA
trailer.
![](./smallpics/field2003/Bill%20on%20backhoe.jpg) Bill
Herkelrath digging a pit with a rented backhoe
to install soil moisture probes and tensiometers
near well 9015 at the north pool.
![](./smallpics/field2004/Geoff%20on%20backhoe2.jpg) Geoff digging
a pit with a rented backhoe prior to
installing new unsaturated-zone
instrumentation.
![](./smallpics/field2003/Geoff%20on%20backhoe.jpg) Another picture of the backhoe
in operation.
![](./smallpics/field2003/Soil%20moisture%20probes%20installed%20in%20pit.jpg) Instruments
in the pit. Note the black oil-contaminated sand
on the pit walls.
![](./smallpics/field2003/Bill%20at%209015a.jpg) Bill
wiring unsaturated-zone instruments into the
datalogger and multiplexers at well
9015.
![](./smallpics/field2003/Bill%20with%20core.jpg) Bill
with an oil-saturated soil core collected from
near well T1 in the unsaturated-zone tracer test
area.
![](./smallpics/field2003/Phil%20at%20GC%20in%20MSEA%20trailer.jpg) Phil
Bennett running one of
the gas chromatographs in the MSEA trailer.
![](./smallpics/field2003/Rich.jpg) Rich
Amos running
one of the gas chromatographs in the MSEA
trailer.
![](./smallpics/field2003/Rich%20shaking%20samples.jpg) Rich
shaking water samples prior
to analyzing the headspace gases.
![](./smallpics/field2003/Randi%20processing%20sample.jpg) Randi
Williams processing a sample in the MSEA
trailer.
![](./smallpics/field2003/Jen%20&%20Rachel.jpg) Jennifer
Rogers and Rachel Mathes sampling
at Lake Bemidji.
![](./smallpics/field2003/Todd%20collecting%20core.jpg) Todd
Anderson collecting a
soil core from Wally to be shipped back to the
lab.
![](./smallpics/field2003/Alyssa%20&%20Todd%20with%20lysimeters.jpg) Todd
and Alyssa preparing a
suction lysimeter for installation near well
9014G.
![](./smallpics/field2003/Stoner%20helping%20with%20GPS.jpg) Jeff
Stoner locating field instruments using a
differential GPS unit at the north pool tracer
test site.
![](./smallpics/field2003/Pulling%20core%20near%20530%20.jpg) Wally
Larson and Luke Stuewe preparing to pull a
core from near well 530.
![](./smallpics/field2003/Alyssa%20with%20digger2.jpg) Alyssa
Boock operating the Dig-R-Mobile to install a
suction lysimeter near well 9014G.
![](./smallpics/field2003/Brian%20and%20Danny%20sampling.jpg) Brian
Hughes and Danny Bailey collecting a water
sample from well 9017.
![](./smallpics/field2003/Dan%20with%20core%20barrel.jpg) Dan
Rosemore preparing the freeze-shoe core barrel
for the next site.
![](./smallpics/field2003/Danny%20and%20Jen%20sampling.jpg) Danny
and Jen collecting a water sample at the north
pool.
![](./smallpics/field2003/Spray%20zone.jpg) Spray
zone showing effects of
hydrophobic conditions, still evident 24 years after the
spill.
![](./smallpics/field2003/Unnamed%20lake.jpg) Unnamed
lake?
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