Hello, Jackson Osborn here. I am an Associate Scientist for CIRES, my background is in Electrical Engineering. I am here to support the deployment of the MiniFlux system and fix/troubleshoot it when things don’t go right, which we are hoping for the opposite. As Gijs alluded to in an earlier post, this is my… Read More

Gijs filled you in on the mission flight from earlier in the week. I’m posting a few more images from that day below. We collected a lot of great data! It was very exciting to see MiniFLux in action and very satisfying to have a successful mission completed. A lot of factors – especially weather… Read More

After a couple of weeks of uncertainty, today was a very exciting day. Weather yesterday and today was good… Really good… Generally, clear skies and lighter winds, with some more cloud cover today (but at high altitude). Having had the teams in place and waiting for the winds to die down for over a week,… Read More

Ok, so I might have forgotten to introduce myself in my first post… I’m Chris Cox, a research scientist in CIRES. I study the physical processes that exchange energy between the atmosphere and Arctic cryosphere – basically, I try to understand how the atmosphere controls melting and freezing of snow and ice. The SeaHunter/miniFlux contribution… Read More

It has been a while since we last posted, so let me fill you in. Where Gijs left off, POPEYE was under way at Oliktok and SODA flight team was working on permissions to fly the SeaHunter aircraft between the Kuparuk airport and the off-shore warning area where SeaHunter is cleared for flight operations. The… Read More