Group photo of the research team during Week 1

Week 2 of the primary research trip this year.

Jenifer Bode

Dan Rosemore

Wally Larson.

Jennifer on a 6-wheel ATV.

Wally on a 4-wheeler.

Jenifer and Dan measured field parameters in the wells completed below unnamed lake.

They paddled to the raft in a canoe.

Following the sampling, Jenifer put the field parameters in a spread sheet.

Bill Herkelrath calibrated the pressure transducers used prior to the aquifer test.

Bill analyzed the data in the trailer during the test.

Water from the pumped well was discharged near the south pool.

The water was channeled into pipes.

The pipes were buried beneath the road.

We measured discharge from the pumped well using a Blancett flow meter and stored the discharge and water-level data on two dataloggers.

Discharge and water-leve were stored on two dataloggers.

Landon Gryzkowski and Dan took the lead in measuring oil levels during the aquifer test.

Landon didn't need the tank cart to move the CO2 tanks into the needed positions.

Soil cores were also collected with the freeze-shoe core barrel.

Barbara Bekins analyzed the soil cores outside the...

MSEA trailer prior to shipment back to the lab for MPN analyses.

Wally, Dan, and Barbara.

Wally, Dan, and Barbara removed the Fe-reducing microcosm for inspection. Unfortunately, all of the sediment in the microcosm fell out during its removal.

We may be able to use the microcosm elsewhere in the future, however.

Phil Bennett and Geoff Delin conducted several more unsaturated-zone push-pull tests, building upon results from the preliminary work done in June.

The samples were injected directly into the USGS GC.

The sub-samples were injected into the University of Texas GC.

A convection oven was used to bake out one of the GC columns, which didn't fit inside either GC.

During this field session, a group of about 25 students (middle school and high-school science teachers from across Minnesota) were given an instructional tour of the site.

As part of their class, the students then measured water levels in a sub-set of the observation wells and constructed a water-table map.

A small forest fire broke out near the site during our trip. Fire fighting crews including a helicopter was brought in to fight the fire.

The helicopter made multiple runs to pick up water in a bucket from a nearby wetland/pond and then...

...dropped the water on the fire. It was put out quickly.

Following the field work, the tent was packed up.

An equipment inventory was competed in our storage facility in Bemidji.