2000 “Texans” with all the fixin’s….

During our project, we plan to record sound waves generated by a series of controlled blasts on two profiles, one with 2000 instruments (“Texans”) deployed along a 350-mile-long profile across Georgia and another with 700 Texans deployed along an 80-mile-long profile.  In total, that’s 2000 instruments and 2700 deployments!! Lot of instruments means lots of stuff.   The basic components of the instruments themselves were shipped in ~160 big plastic boxes arranged into ~18 pallets.  Each of these instruments will be powered by two D-cell batteries. To power the instruments for both lines, we needed 5500 D-cell batteries.  We picked them up from the Lowes in Vidalia as a 2000-lb pallet.  For each station, we also need flags to mark the locations, and bags and tape to protect the data recorder.  We very quickly filled up our 1800-square-foot field center in Lyons, GA with all these goodies…

Donna Shillington,  LDEO

Freshly delivered pallets of boxes holding all the science equipment

The PASSCAL team re-arranged the boxes into a T for their own devious reasons :)

The trusty Silverado loaded down with 2000 pounds of batteries! (Dan for scale).