FOOTPRINT92 Summary

Personnel Involved

Principle Investigators: Brian Lamb, WSU, and Monique Leclerc, University of Quebec at Montreal

WSU Personnel: Hal Westberg, Dennis Finn, Jim Rydock, Bob Siverson and Lee Bamesberger.

Local Logistical Support: Jerry Allwine, Battelle, \ Pacific Northwest Laboratories

ASTER Project Scientist: Tony Delany.

ASTER Project Engineer: Steve Semmer.

ASTER Personnel: Tom Horst, Gordon Maclean, Kurt Knudson, and Alan Abshire.

Location of Field Program

The ASTER facility was deployed at the Diffusion Array on the Hanford Nuclear Reservation 80 km north of the town of Richland, Washington. (See Figures 1 and 2.) The FOOTPRINT92 research site was located at latitude 46.56 W, 119.58 N at an elevation of 230 meters. The Gable Butte, Washington quadrangle of the 7.5 minute U.S.G.S. topographic map shows the topography of the research area. (See Figure 3.)

Dates of Field Program

Equipment arrived at the field site on 22 May 1992
Setup and checkout from 22 May - 1June 1992
Operational period 2 June - 29 June; Julian days 154 - 181.

First operational period, ops1: jd (154-157).
Second operational period, ops2: jd (157-174).
Third operational period, ops3: jd(174-181).

Tear-down commenced 1 July 1992.

Figure 4 shows an overview of the FOOTPRINT92 site.
Figure 5 shows the release line, 50 m flux station, and 100 m flux station.
Figure 6 shows the 175 m flux station and the 250 m flux station.