FIREX

Tuesday, October 11

Dear FIREXers;

Today we had six burns, with a wide variety of flaming and smoldering emissions–and we snuck in a short burn of one of the chaparral fuels we just received: Lodgepole Litter/ Douglas Fir and Litter/ Engelmann Spruce Canopy/ Chamise/ Sub-alpine Fir/ Engelmann Spruce Duff.

Photographer: A. Galang

We have had several instrumental challenges to date, but those have been or are being resolved. We plan on a full day of chaparral fuels tomorrow and will have a few science presentations at the end-of-day meetings tomorrow and Thursday.

Thanks to everyone for their hard work,

Jim, Carsten, and Bob

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Wednesday, October 12

Dear FIREXers:

Today we had four successful burns of chaparral and one of a Douglas Fir rotten log.

Today’s science presentations were by Jim about the new Ny system, Bin Yuan about first results with the I-CIMS and Paola Massoli about the nitrate-CIMS. Thanks for the great discussion!