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Photographer: Barry Swackhamer
Taken: June 18, 2017
Caption: Central Sierra Snow Lab Marker
Additional Description: Captions: (top left) 1951 Geiger Mueller Counter*, battery of precipitation gauges, and radio-active Cobalt 60 (under now at right).; (top right) "Weighing a snow core for a water holding sturdy" at the Snow Lab 1948.; (bottom) Federal Sampler being used at Snow Lab. *The amount of water in the snow affected how much radiation was detected as the radioisotope was raised from underground. In that way a profile of the snowpack could be determined.
Submitted: July 8, 2017, by Barry Swackhamer of Brentwood, California.
Database Locator Identification Number: p388339
File Size: 3.628 Megabytes

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