A little background of the events leading up to today--
Myself and my colleague Ambarish returned from our technical conference in Boston on Saturday. Our lab director Prof. Al Gasiewski returned from the same conference Sunday afternoon in time for our final scheduled lab test of equipment. We met a few others in our lab Sunday night (David Kraft, our expert mechanical engineer, and graduate students Miao Tian and Ankita Chaturvedi), for equipment testing, which was successful but lasted long into the evening ~10.30.
Monday was dedicated to packing what turned out to be more than 3,800 lbs of equipment for AMISA, the Arctic Mechanisms of Interaction between the Surface and Atmosphere campaign. Packing all that equipment took from 8 AM Monday until 1:30 AM Tuesday (yes, AM in both cases), but Al bought us all dinner which made the evening hours somewhat shorter.
A small amount of the equipment packed up and ready to leave:
Tuesday, today, the equipment is on its way by truck and I am traveling from Denver to Palmdale where we will upload the equipment to the NASA DC-8 aircraft for the mission. I am traveling with Miao and Ankita and we are presently delayed one hour in the San Fransisco airport. On the first leg of the flight (DEN to SFO) I met Julie; who, on hearing of the accommodations we expect in Sweden, insisted I bring a large jar of peanut butter to avoid certain starvation. More on "Camp Ripan" to come!
Graduate Students Miao Tian, and Ankita Chaturvedi:
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Wow, looks like fun! Keep the updates coming. -Catherine
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