We met today with Nancy and Gianna at the University of Colorado Museum of Natural History to discuss the early stages of designing a museum exhibit sharing the works of our McMurdo lidar campaign! We hope to share our excitement about STEM fields, while educating visitors about geospace and the role that our data plays… Read More

After quite extensive research on the conjugate photoelectrons by Dr. Chu and Yingfei, the rebuttal letter to the reviewers worked and the Boulder predawn TINa paper got accepted finally. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023GL105626 In the future, more comprehensive work should be done before submitting the manuscript. We are looking forward to getting more results published about Boulder TINa… Read More

Greetings from Christchurch, New Zealand!!! I still can’t believe everything! I got the news that I might be deployed to McMurdo Station, Antarctica two weeks ago, now I’m already waiting for my winter flight to the ice in New Zealand. I called Dr. Chu on Thursday at 2:31pm about my New Zealand Visa approval and… Read More

We have been hard at work since the last update, so it has been a while since I’ve posted. Last November, we first noted some strange results in our lidar signal, showing aerosols (suspended particles) from around 15-25 km in the air. This is higher than most clouds, but was out of season for when… Read More

To many “Antarcticans”, Antarctica is simply known as “The Ice”.  Celebrating birthday on the ice is a lucky thing to any Antarctican, and I became one of the lucky Antarcticans on Dec. 28, 2022, who celebrated birthday on the ice! The Chu Lidar Group planned a party for me in Crary library on Wednesday night… Read More

Hello again! As I expected, once we hit the ice we quickly got busy with refurbishment and training to the point where blog updates were on the back of my mind. However, after hard work from the entire team and some long nights, we were able to return to operational capacity by mid-late September! After… Read More

Our major goal was to get to the lidar lab by the end of the month. However, this wasn’t an easy task. Since we arrived in winter, we had a large amount of additional training to do before we were allowed to leave the base on our own. Our training list was: a comms briefing,… Read More

We finally got to fly down on August 28 after 11 days of being delayed! We almost got to fly on Saturday the 27th, all got dressed up in our warm clothes ready to head to the airport, and got a call from the hotel telling us to postpone things another day. After the hectic… Read More

Spending a week in New Zealand might sound like a great “last week” before heading to the ice! Problem is, July 31 is when NZ opened their borders, and it didn’t take long for COVID to spread around the city. As such, our week in NZ has been spent cooped up in the hotel rooms… Read More

The so-called “Ice Flight” is always an unpredictable one. Due to changing weather conditions and the remoteness of the Antarctic station, the flight carrying us from Christchurch to McMurdo can be, and often is, delayed. Usually delays are due to weather conditions, and the flight can be cancelled at any time, even sometimes when the… Read More