This summer has been full of training and preparation for this fall’s McMurdo deployment, but we are taking a few weeks in June to share our research results with the community at a series of back-to-back conferences! This years annual Coupling, Energetics, and Dynamics of Atmospheric Regions (CEDAR) Workshop is held in Austin, TX in… Read More

Moving a storage container is a tricky process, and it’s even trickier when it’s 4 containers holding a lidar transmitter and 3 massive telescopes! One of our lidar systems has been housed on NOAA’s Table Mountain site for years, but we were finally able to move it to a more accessible location on campus, meaning… Read More

Earlier this year, Ian and I were selected to receive a Travel Fellowship from the WAVE group, a NASA DRIVE Science Center based out of LASP which funded our travel to Frankfurt, Germany for the 2022 SPARC Gravity Wave Symposium. This is an international group of researchers studying gravity waves in every way from modeling… Read More

On October 10th, Dr. Chu and I (Jackson) submitted a manuscript of a study, led by me, to AGU’s Earth and Space Science journal. This study is titled “Comparison of Three Methodologies for Removal of Random-Noise-Induced Biases From Second-Order Statistical Parameters of Lidar and Radar Measurements”. This paper studies the application of multiple different bias-correction… Read More

With the start of the Fall 2021 semester, we’re finally back in the lab working on system development and training! Our lab goals this semester focus around the development of existing components into a working Sodium Doppler lidar. To do this, we must first train and get familiar with the systems after such a long… Read More

Since the last update was posted, the world looks a little different. Although last March most of us transitioned into working from home, our Lidar scientists Xianxin Li and Cissi Lin remained away from home at the McMurdo Lidar facility throughout the entire Antarctic Winter season working to continue collecting data and operating the systems.… Read More