CryoSkills

If you're interested in learning about building your own environmental sensors, missed out on @cryoskills, and can travel to Pennsylvania, you may be interested in this two-day course run by the team at @StroudCenter envirodiy.org/event/learn-di…

💡@tjy511 & Martim Mas e Braga were in Haugastøl 🇳🇴w/ @NERCscience-funded & immersive @cryoskills course, enabling @UKRI_News #geoscientists to design, build & deploy their own #sensors in #cold regions. TJ was a co-founder & co-organiser & Martim was a course participant.

Spent last week in Haugastøl, Norway #cryoskills workshop building on my field and electronics skillset. Came away with a working temperature data logger that now lives in my Yard-en! #PhD #workshop #Glaciology #Engineering

And that's it for the inaugural @cryoskills course! Thank you to the team and other attendees for a fab week learning cryospheric engineering and field skills, and doing so with great people! ☺️ #CryoSkills

Are you ready for #EGU24? Check out our #cryosphere highlights in today's #cryoblog ! What are your programme highlights for the upcoming @EuroGeosciences General Assembly in Vienna? blogs.egu.eu/divisions/cr/2…

Two of the clues from the treasure hunt…

This was followed by The Best Treasure Hunt Ever, led by Emma Fisher, and featuring the resistor colour code, a python script, a crossword where one of the clues was in binary, and a navigation challenge.

Monday was a big day: calibrating the sensors (with tuition from @lizbagshaw_ice ) and getting them mounted up onto the stands.

The course ended with a wrap-up session and presentation of certificates. Thanks to everyone involved, it was great working with you!

Then we learned about decommissioning our instruments and brought them back in for data analysis. Sadly (but realistically), some instruments ran for longer than others. There are still some firmware bugs to find before they’re fully reliable.

Tuesday morning began with field skills: find an avalanche victim with probes; practice navigating in a whiteout; use a satellite phone to report your position and learn how a snowmobile works.

Will be bringing one of these mini stations to the Himalayas in November 🙂. #cryoskills

The #CryoSkills course has culminated in deploying our crafted analogue and digital temperature sensors + data loggers setups outside Haugastøl Turistsenter, and producing some data! 🤩

Final task: do some woodwork and ropework to build a stand for the loggers and solar panels. Today we’ll make some finishing touches, calibrate our sensors, and deploy them outside.

Then it was back to the workshop to finish building the dataloggers, including a final quality control check and bench test.

Sunday was day 4 of the course, and featured a complex emergency scenario devised by Sam and Lisa: each group had some actors planted amongst them who became hypothermic or got injured.

@hollywytiah @Lauren_Rawlins1 Glad you enjoyed it!

Spending today getting our sensors ready to deploy and testing how we respond to emergencies in the field. I’m also pretty lucky to get to spend my birthday in Norway with a fantastic bunch of people. #cryoskills

Skills gained so far: sled packing and pulling, digging kit out of snow, @arduino coding, soldering, electronics, data logger box building... the list goes on! #cryoskills