{"id":428,"date":"2018-11-23T04:10:34","date_gmt":"2018-11-23T04:10:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kochanski.org\/kelly\/?p=428"},"modified":"2020-07-14T20:46:32","modified_gmt":"2020-07-14T20:46:32","slug":"the-last-train-north","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kochanski.org\/kelly\/the-last-train-north\/","title":{"rendered":"The last train north"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This week, I dismantled the northernmost train in North America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This train ran on a 130m track in the Barrow Experimental Observatory near Utqiagvik, Alaska, 71 degrees north. It belongs to <a href=\"https:\/\/ngee-arctic.ornl.gov\/\">NGEE-Arctic<\/a>, and has spent the last three summers shuttling back and forth across the tundra, stopping every meter to measure the temperature, insolation, and snow depth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(At least, it shuttled back and forth on good days. I have yet to find any field equipment that works perfectly in freezing weather.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We took the equipment down over the course of three days, with some grace and some unhappily bare fingers; cold field equipment is always best when it comes with large, mitten-friendly bolts. Then, we hauled it back to town on snow machines, packed it up, and shipped it south to Berkeley.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"860\" height=\"645\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kochanski.org\/kelly\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_20181109_150400.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-431\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kochanski.org\/kelly\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_20181109_150400.jpg 860w, https:\/\/www.kochanski.org\/kelly\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_20181109_150400-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.kochanski.org\/kelly\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_20181109_150400-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 860px) 100vw, 860px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, I dismantled the northernmost train in North America.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":430,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,75,51,83,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-field","category-fieldwork","category-places","category-polar-climate","category-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kochanski.org\/kelly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kochanski.org\/kelly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kochanski.org\/kelly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kochanski.org\/kelly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kochanski.org\/kelly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.kochanski.org\/kelly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":495,"href":"https:\/\/www.kochanski.org\/kelly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428\/revisions\/495"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kochanski.org\/kelly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kochanski.org\/kelly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kochanski.org\/kelly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kochanski.org\/kelly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}