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A bear of a day…
We woke up to a windy morning — somewhat surprising, given the weather forecast — but winds were at a low enough level that we made the decision to prepare to fly. Before we could get out the door,...
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Foiled…
The reality of field work is sometimes an ugly one. In an ideal world, you show up to your site, the weather’s good, your instruments and tools work, and you get a fantastic dataset. That, through...
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Profiles and fog and bears, oh my…
Having flown the series of profiles yesterday afternoon and evening, we were very much looking forward to more of the same today. When we woke up this morning, the winds had died down, but...
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Reflections at the halfway point
Well, just like that, this two-week campaign is half over. It has gone quickly, but not at all as I had envisioned it going in. The issues that we’ve been having with radar interference have really...
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Settling down…
This morning I made the decision to transition to the operational mode that we had been hoping to execute from day one. The long hours of troubleshooting the radar issues have been wearing on everyone...
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Domo Arigato, Mr. Roboto
When we set out for Oliktok, things seemed somewhat straightforward — the airplanes had just come off of consecutive campaigns to Utah and Japan where the team did not have to use the remote control...
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The last two days…
As conveyed, we are struggling to use our aircraft to the extent we’re used to, but that doesn’t mean that we’re going to come home empty handed. Although it sometimes seems a bit futile, over the...
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In a fog…
Every morning since we arrived here, I’ve woken up at the same time (6:20 AKDT) in order to have a little time to wake up before our daily operations briefing at 6:45 AKDT. This morning, I woke up...
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Profiles, profiles, and more profiles…
Today has been (and continues to be — lots of daylight on the North Slope right now!) a day filled with profiling of the atmosphere. We started right at 8 am this morning, and have been doing our best...
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Packing up…
Today was our last day flying at Oliktok. Before I get into the day’s activities, here’s a bit of information on ERASMUS, “by the numbers”: Number of days spent on site at Oliktok: 13.5 Total number...
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