Previous Field Studies
During my time as a postdoc at Colorado State University, I participated in a number of field projects involving the Continuous Flow Diffusion Chamber (CFDC).
April-May 2004 INSPECT II, Steamboat Springs, CO
INSPECT II was a field study conducted at the mountaintop DRI Storm Peak Laboratory in Steamboat Springs, CO. Measurements were made of aerosol properties and ice nucleation events in clean tropospheric air and in air masses influenced by nearby urban pollution.
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Left: Storm Peak Laboratory, elevation 10,525 ft. Right: Uploading equipment to the laboratory.
November-December 2003, Alliance Icing Research Study II, (AIRS II), Quebec, Canada
The objectives of AIRS II were to characterize the atmospheric conditions conducive to aircraft icing and the formation of mixed-phase and ice clouds.
Left: The NCAR C-130 Research Aircraft. Right: Inside the C-130, in-flight operation of the CFDC.
August-September 2003, IDEAS III, NCAR Research Aviation Facility, Broomfield, CO
As it's name implies, IDEAS III is dedicated to Instrument Development and Education in Airborne Science. To the end, the NCAR C-130 conducted flights carrying a wide variety of instrumentation for measurement of turbulence, cloud properties, chemical trace species, and remote sensors.
June-August 2002, CRYSTAL-FACE, Key West, FL
The purpose of the Cirrus Regional Study of Tropical Anvils and Cirrus Layers - Florida Area Cirrus Experiment (CRYSTAL-FACE) was to investigate carbon dioxide and greenhouse warming caused from human activities and its effects on the increase of cirrus clouds in our atmosphere.
January-March 2001 SOLVE, Kiruna, Sweden
As a graduate student at the University of Colorado, Boulder, I participated in the SAGE III Ozone Loss and Validation Experiment (SOLVE) mission in Kiruna, Sweden. The purpose of SOLVE was to study polar ozone loss in the Arctic Stratosphere. During this project, I operated NCAR's Multiangle Aerosol Spectrometer Probe (MASP) onboard the ER-2.
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