Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre Internship Program

This latest posting comes out of the Center for Science and Technology Policy Research (CSTPR), which is one of the centers affiliated with CIRES. CSTPR and CU-Boulder partner with the Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre (RCRCCC)…

Snow and Ice Reflectivity Ground-Truth on Penny Ice Cap, Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada

Week 1 in South Korea for KORUS-AQ (2016–04–30)

The DC-8 left the United States on Tuesday, April 26, 2016 and arrived to Osan Air Force Base on Wednesday, April 27, 2016. This may sound like a normal flight time, if you have ever traveled from the United States to some where in Eastern Asia…

What is KORUS-AQ

The AQ part of the science mission stands for air quality. If you have ever had a smog test for your vehicle or experienced a spare the air day, you have first hand experience of air quality and what impacts it.

KORUS-AQ Week 04/15/2016 (Star Date 93890.35)

Hello everyone!

My name is Benjamin Nault, and I am a postdoctoral researcher at University of Colorado, Boulder. My research focuses on the chemistry of aerosols (which I will go into more detail in a later blog or…

KORUS-AQ: What am I studying and why it’s important

There are a lot of goals that many scientist have during this mission, including numerous aspects of atmospheric chemistry and dynamics. The thing I am interested in for the mission are particles or aerosols.

KORUS-AQ Week 3: What is a typical week like for (NASA DC-8) airborne science?

To all my adoring fans, sorry that it has been more than week since I have posted. I just completed 7 flights in a span of 10ish days (so kind of busy).

Final Project of KORUS-AQ — SARP

So, prior to finishing up KORUS-AQ and getting a break before my next campaign (that will start at the end of July and I will be blogging about that as well), the scientist of KORUS-AQ had one more project to do — SARP.

06/15/2016: KORUS-AQ — And that’s a wrap

Yesterday marks the end of KORUS-AQ. The NASA DC-8, and the scientists that flew on the DC-8, left South Korea at 3:00 PM (South Korean local time) and arrived back to Palmdale, CA at 2:30 PM (Californian local time).