Month: May 2016

System opened at 0530 and turned off at 0830 (same as on 5/30/16).  No sample present in spite of heavy drip and thick fog at my house, which is about 400′ lower in elevation.  Odd.  System triggering normally.  System cleaned and blank taken and acidified.

System opened at 0530 and turned off at 0830 (same as on 5/30/16).  No sample present in spite of heavy drip and thick fog at my house, which is about 400′ lower in elevation.  Odd.  System triggering normally.  System cleaned and blank taken and acidified.

Treated to about 50 mL of very clear fog water, collected at 9:00, clouds beginning to clear.   Taken home and refrigerated within 1 hour and acidified in the lab the next day 5/31/16.

Acid cleaned the strings on 5/20/16

System opened up last night due to some light rain, but no sample collected.  System rinsed in place with DI and doors closed.

active system is back online

set up the passive collector at the MLML shore facility

need to bring new piece of threaded rod, swap out the mesh, and install the bird spikes

Big fog day at UCSC

250 mL (full bottle overflowing) collected of fog water at 7:45 am

new bottle put on and collected another 100 mL at 2 pm

purged all 250 mL onto one trap in 3 100 mL purgings and there was no DMHg peak.

split into dark incubation samples and acidified another aliquot of both -1 overnight and -2 daytime samples

Also sampled and detected DMHg in SC Munic wastewater treatment digester #1 gas.  More details to come.

55 mL of clear fog water obtained today

pH 4.5

purged for DMHg, no peak

will be ethylated and purged for MMHg

rinse blank taken

system reset for tonight

Dan and Peter set up the Schemenauer passive collector with a tipping bucket rain gauge (and the optical sensor for the active collector triggering.

MIT and German mesh collectors taken down

Active system acid cleaned and ready to go

 

collector did not turn on despite rainy conditions due to bug in program that prevents it from triggering after “active fog pi” is selected.

Rinsed out collector with DI.  Acid cleaning occurred 4/29

Also can’t connect with ethernet cable