We received an NSF award notice on Sunday 8/22/2021 that the McMurdo lidar project has been renewed for 5 more years of lidar observations and science discoveries in Antarctica. Can’t wait to go back to the Ice and turn on our lidars to make more discoveries!… Read More

We just published a new paper in Geophysical Research Letters (GRL) on the first-ever simultaneous lidar observations of iron (Fe) and sodium (Na) metal layers in the Antarctic thermosphere and ionosphere system. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GL090181 Interplanetary dust particles, also called cosmic dust, have a widespread impact on Earth. They introduce metal atoms and ions into Earth’s upper… Read More

Our lidar team just published a paper in Journal of Geophysical Research (JGR-Atmospheres) to report the first discovery of equatorial QBO signals in Antarctic gravity wave activity at McMurdo. https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2020JD032866 The first author, Zimu Li, was the lidar technical lead for winter 2019 at McMurdo Station and collected a large amount of lidar data. Congratulations… Read More