Schedule

Day 1

  1. 6am Flight to Adelaide and 3 hours drive to Renmark, checkin around 2 pm
  2. Talk to Steven, The land owner,
  3. Visit the SA2 station in the middle of the pond.
    1. The tripod is stable enough to hold the boat. Using two points to fix the boat (tripod and anchor) is efficient.
    2. The solar intensity sensor is broken. The arduino is not able to read from the solar intensity sensor, then it spent too long to read the data. The raspberry pi dead becasue of the freeze of arduino
    3. Reboost the rapsberry pi and remove the broken sensor

Recordings

https://youtu.be/I0AazwQ0l9U

Special notes

  1. Double check the flights, hotel, car rental, FCM might change the original booking information
  2. Ranger pickup box is not big enough for 3 containers, better to find a pickup with cover

Photos and videos

First day in SA

Photos

Day 2

  1. Water sampling
    1. Spend 2 hours to empty the water in the bore hole
  2. Station maintenance
    1. remove the broken solar intensity sensor
    2. clean the camera house

Photos and videos

SA second day