STKA - Stora Kjalalda

Yesterday I and my brother finished setting up power at the station STKA on Sprengisandur. The site was installed a week ago with help from UNAVCO people Dave Mencin and Mike Jackson. Pictures can be seen at http://geo.arizona.edu/~sigrun/iceland/stka.html

Sigrun

HLFJ - Hlidarfjall

Last thursday I and Hreinn Hjartarson finished the installation of the site Hlidarfjall, HLFJ. I have posted some pictures at
http://geo.arizona.edu/~sigrun/iceland/HLFJ.html
There is the possibility of wireless internet at the site. I will try to deal with the internet provider next week (the site is straight across from the broadcast tower).

Sigrun

LFEL - Lambafell

Thorgils and I finished the site Lambafell yesterday and downloaded the first set of data from the site. I will post updates and informations on the site at
http://geo.arizona.edu/~sigrun/iceland/LFEL.html. I have posted there some pictures of the site and the installation process.

Sigrun

Site selection in North Iceland

Last week (15/8 - 18/8) Halldor Geirsson and Sigurjon Jonsson travelled around north Iceland to select sites. In short: we found 14 possible sites for the 10 instruments to install in September. However good this may sound, we had some difficulties and many of the installations will not be optimal; most sites require long cabling and/or short-range wi-fi solutions. We will publish a map soon with the new planned site locations.

-HG

A test (!) and new sites installed

While being a test for this blog site, I'd like to give an update on what has been happening with the 1Hz Grant of excellence project lately.
All quadripods have been installed in the Hekla network. At selected sites instruments are running on solar panels, collecting 15s data to the internal memory.
Sigrun Hreinsdóttir has been drilling a lot in the Hveravellir region with IMO's new technichian, Þorgils Ingvarsson. They have finished one installation at Hveravellir, HVEL - a quadripod installation. Tomorrow (15. Aug) they are going to finish a PBO installation at Lambafell.

Þorgils installed an instrument at Nýlenda at the western edge of the Reykjanes Peninsula 2 weeks ago.

4 weeks ago we finished installing a seismic and CGPS station at Goðaland, Mýrdalsjökull as a part of the European VOLUME project. The gps station (GOLA) is collecting 15 and 1s data but we have not finished the installation where the radiosignal from the instruments is recepted.

Sigurjón Jónsson and Halldór Geirsson are going tomorrow to North Iceland to select sites for 10 CGPS stations.

-HG