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