By Summer Ruper Hello SEAT blog followers. I am Summer Ruper, and I would like to share with you a little bit of the ice coring adventure that begins well before the field team heads to Antarctica. Before we start drilling ice cores in the harsh cold and wind of Antarctica, we have to train […]
The Road to Antarctica Begins in Kansas
By Lora Koenig The last week of September was a busy one for the SEAT radar team. Ludo, Clem and I spent the week at the Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets (CReSIS), an NSF Science and Technology Center, at the University of Kansas preparing the radars and the radar sled for shipment to […]
How Much Does It Snow In Antarctica?
By Lora Koenig Hello! My name is Lora Koenig and I would like to welcome you to our Satellite Era Accumulation Traverse blog. I know that is a mouthful so we will call it the SEAT blog. So have a SEAT, grab a hot drink, and enjoy the blog. From now until mid-January, my colleagues […]
Closing the Flight Campaign
Goddard Space Flight Center 12:30 p.m. Charles Gatebe: I’m calling in from my office at Goddard Space Flight Center today. We finished our flights for CAR yesterday, on Monday. I did try to call in my report late in yesterday evening as I was driving home from Wallops. I missed the connection at that time […]
Final Flight for DBSAR
Maryland 8:00 p.m. Rafael Rincon: I am calling from the Bay Bridge in Maryland, on my way to Goddard after a long day at Wallops. I’m almost there, after the final flight for the DBSAR on this campaign. It’s been a very long, but a very good day. The DBSAR worked beautifully, with no hiccups […]
Exploring the Everglades
Maryland 10:00 p.m. Rafael Rincon: Today was a really good day – things went really smoothly and we successfully acquired a lot of good data without any glitches. The flights today were over the Everglades and the Florida keys. It was very scenic, and I wanted to get some pictures out the window but I […]
Smooth Flying
Homestead, Florida 7:35 a.m. Rafael Rincon: Good morning! It’s early here, but we have been working already for a few hours. I’m standing outside the airplane, and we are getting ready to board for today’s flight. We made sure that everything is in place, and we are ready to go, as soon as they call […]
A Week of Woeful Weather
West River, Maryland 11:10 p.m. This is Joanne Howl, the writer for this blog. Normally I take a back seat, not speaking myself but sharing the stories that the science team brings to me each day. Today I wanted to take a moment to speak as myself. After a week layoff, the team is back […]
Eco-3D Biographies
The Eco-3D campaign has been supported by many people, including scientists, engineers, flight crew, students, professors and others. The biographies below are limited to members of the Ec0-3D Field and Aircraft Campaign 2011. Charles Gatebe, Ph.D. Principal Investigator CAR Dr. Gatebe works at Goddard Space Flight Center as a scientist and group lead with the […]