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Windy and cold conditions a few days ago. It was not pleasant being outside when I had to fix my inlets.<\/p><\/div>\n
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This is when it is really blowing snow, time to go inside<\/p><\/div>\n
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Your breath turns to ice on your clothing VERY quickly when temperatures are really low. It was near -40 degrees with the wind chill this day.<\/p><\/div>\n
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Ahi! Alas, I was able to warm up with some ahi tuna for dinner \ud83d\ude42<\/p><\/div>\n
With the recent power outages, I was able to check out how my samplers were doing. Looks like I was able to collect a bunch of particles before the outage. Aerosol particles get sucked into the sampler with a powerful vacuum pump. Once they enter the sampler, they impact on the surfaces of these discs that rotate slowly over time. The way the particles stick to the discs is I spray them with a solution that dries and becomes sticky. That way, the aerosols stick to the surface instead of bounce off the disc, otherwise I would not have any samples!<\/p>\n
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Here I am spraying the discs that rotate very slowly over time and collect aerosols. The stuff I am spraying dries, but leaves a sticky residue that the aerosols adhere to.<\/p><\/div>\n
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It is hard to see, but that faint white smudge on the disc is a bunch of aerosols that impacted on the disc. This sample was collected for 2 days.<\/p><\/div>\n
Today, the site technicians let me launch one of their routine weather balloons, pretty cool! Luckily, power is back on and my samplers are up and running, working hard at collecting aerosols. Even with all these challenges, it is exciting to research in the Arctic \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
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Ready…set…<\/p><\/div>\n
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