DAURE Logistics

This Wiki page is a repository for information for the Organization and Logistics of the DAURE Campaign. Anyone involved in the campaign can add information directly, but due to problems with Spam you do need to login (and create an account if you don't have one already). You can also email Jose with any information and he can add it quickly to the site.

Location and Logistics of Urban (Barcelona) Site

• The host institute in Barcelona is located here
• The urban site is located very close to the host institute
• SHIPPING ADDRESS
  

Xavier Querol
Institute of Earth Sciences -Jaume Almera
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (CSIC)
C/ LLuis Sole' i Sabari's S/N
08028 Barcelona
00 34 93 4095410 tel
00 34 93 4110012 fax

• Residence right next to urban site

Residencia Torre Girona (Location Passeig dels Til•lers, 19 08034 Barcelona Telephon: (0034) 93 390 43 00 Fax: (0034) 93 205 69 10 E-mail: torregirona@resa.es Price of a single room: 1 month: 652 Euros (room only, without breakfast, you will have a small kitchen in the rrom) + 75 Euros contract for 2008. Additional fees: 12+35 Euros for water and electricity consumption. IMPORTANT: WHEN BOOKING PLEASE MENTION THAT THE BOOKING IS IN THE FRAMEWORK OF 'DAURE' PRICES ARE MUCH REDUCED BECAUSE WE GET THE RATES FOR UPC UNIVERSITY STAFF, OTHERWISE IT IS MUCH MORE EXPENSIVE. (1 day: Single Monday to Friday 62.5 Euros, Week end 51.5 Euros

• Other practical info for Barcelona
  • Low cost airlines flying to/from Barcelona
  • Info on public transportation in Barcelona
  • Info for English-speaking Expats leaving in Spain
  • Guide to Barcelona (English)

Location and Logistics of Rural (Montseny) Site

• The rural site will be in the Montseny National park, this map has a general relation of the site with Barcelona
• Closest vilages to Montseny site are: Santa María de Palautordera and Sant Esteve de Palautordera. Restaurants and accomodation are available also overthere. Montseny is 1.5 h driving from Barcelona and 20 min from the above villages.

• Telephone, water, power, beds, a basic lab, some offices and a kitchen will be available at the rural site house.
• There is free (very basic) accomodation with small bunk beds, if you bring sheets and a blanket or a sleeping bag. There is heating and a fireplace but this can not be used to avoid emissions, we also cannot cook. We may bring electric heaters and adventurous folks could stay overnight at the site.

• We will be staying at Can-Marc Rural Hostel. There is free wifi at the hostel and a restaurant that can provide breakfast and dinner.
• The last stretch of road to the Montseny site is still in bad shape (it would be tricky for a regular car). Andres says (3-Feb) that they have been promised that it will be repaired, but they are not sure how complete those will be. The plan is to have two cars there, as detailed in this spreadsheet
• There is a regional train line ('Linea de Cercanias C2 de RENFE') from downtown Barcelona to a station near the site (Palautordera is the closest station, or Sant Celoni is also nearby) This map shows the path from the Palautordera train station to the house where we will be staying (Can-Marc)
• The best mobile phone and mobile internet coverage at the rural site is with "Telefonica / Movistar". Those of you with a GSM phone can buy a SIM card to get in their network.
• There is a phone landline at the site, which we may be able to use for dialup internet (will check on 12-Feb). (free dialup in Spain: Gonuts4free)
• It may be possible to get internet access with a USB modem over the cell phone network (will check on 12-Feb)
• We have explored satellite internet but it is expensive (3000 euros for 1 yr or 6000 euros for 3 yrs) so we are not planning on having it

People and Dates

• Period of Measurement: Monday Feb. 23 to Friday March 27, 2009
  • See this spreadsheet for a draft schedule. Let Jose know if there are errors, etc.
    • Link for editing

• Dates for specific people
  • Jose: Jan 31 to Mar 23
  • Mike: 17-Feb through 29-Mar (Arrival: LH 4454 from Frankfurt at 1435, 17/2/2009 - Departure: LH 4485 from BCN at 0820, 29/3/2009)
  • Eiko Nemitz: Arrive 16-Feb --> 21-Feb
  • Chiara (Eiko's group): Arrive 16-Feb --> 27-Feb
  • John Jayne and Sally Ng: will arrive together in Barcelona on Tuesday March 3rd at 9:25 AM. Delta Airlines flight number 9348 coming in from Paris. CSIC (Andres) will arrange to pick them up and bring them to Montseny).
  • People from Innsbruck: Simon Schallharter (24-Feb -->27-Mar); Markus Müller (24-Feb --> 01-Mar); Axel Metzger (28-Feb --> 15-Mar & 24-Mar -->27-Mar).

Instrumentation and Supplies

• Places to get supplies etc
  • For computer components, two large shops located near the Institute are PC City and FNAC, which are in the Centro Comercial L'illa
  • For harder to find computer components, there is a huge concentration of computer shops ("tiendas de informatica") around Ronda San Antoni (Metro San Antoni, near the old town)
  • For electronics a good supplier is Diotronics which is in Barcelona near the old town (See location and contact info here)

• The instrumentation info is listed in more detail on the main DAURE page and will be centralized there

• Jimenez group is bringing: PAM + 1 laptop, switching valve system (for PAM) + 2 laptops, SMPS + CPC (no charger), multicomponent box of boxes, DustTrak

• Eiko's group
  • HR-ToF-AMS will be shipped on 9 Feb to the attention of Xavier Querol at CSIC. It should take 4 working days.
  • The software has been updated.
  • Also shipped: spare V301,4 spare filaments, 2 pinholes, spare MDI diaphragm, a nafion dryer, 4 Charles Austen pumps, a spare MCP
  • Eiko's group is also bringing a batch denuder for NH3 and HNO3.

• PSI will bring 2 spare turbo pumps (1 small, 1 large) and spare filaments for sure. For the MCPs, they still have to check

• Things that Colorado needs to bring
  • nafion dryer (Eiko doesn't have extra)
  • SMPS and CPC (NO charger)
  • miniature tools for AMS (Eiko doesn't have 2)

• Sally Ng and John Jayne of Aerodyne are bringing a Mini-AMS (ACSM)

• Innsbruck group is bringing a PTR-ToF-MS.

• PTRMS Group. Main operator will be Roger Seco (PhD student 93-581-3420 (o)) from Josep Penuelas' group. Other people in the group with PTRMS capability include Iolanda Filena & Joan Llusia
  • Josep Penuelas 93-581-2199 & (2934 Joan LLusia 4670 Yolanda Filella) Roger 3420 Secretary 1312

• GC-MS Sampling of foliar BVOC emissions of dominant tree species in MOntseny study area (Quercus ilex) will be also conducted by Josep Penuelas`group (Main operator JOan Llusia)

To-do List

• Amber will deal from PAM and scrubber for O3, also can PAM run on 220V & 50 Hz

• Stuff for Jose to do:
  • Ask PSI to bring extra charger
  • Looking into health / accident insurance
  • Cobertura de telefonica para USB modem
  • Gases for PAM: Abello Rafael B. rbartroli@ija.csic.es with specs of gases + volume + plazo, regulators
  • Driving with US and other licenses?
  • Need to find home depot equivalent (Ferreteria)
  • Distributors for Scientific supplies?
  • Finish lists of contacts for campaign (cell phones, addresses, etc)
  • Organize talks on Feb 2 (Noemi tesis del Montseny)

Issues to deal with

• Check water supply MSY

• Verifying power at MSY_2

• 2 mobile units fro AQ monitoring booked at local AQ agency, but may be not needed if CSIC's cabins are equipped with instruments for gaseous pollutants (in progress).

• Denuders fro OC for partisol: nned to build 2 of them

• Interesting having Radon measurements from UPC?