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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 need also 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).

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