Unmanned Aircraft in Alaska (part 2)

CIRES/NOAA scientist Gijs de Boer blogs from the North Slope, where he’s using drones to study the changing Arctic atmosphere

CIRES in Unmanned Aircraft on the North Slope of Alaska (part 2)

Mar 14, 2016

Checklists for your checklists…

Preparations are well underway for our upcoming deployment to Oliktok Point, Alaska. I have to say that…

Gijs de Boer in Unmanned Aircraft on the North Slope of Alaska (part 2)

Apr 12, 2016

A brief window of opportunity…

Yesterday we set out for the AMF-3 prepared to stay for the entire day and into the evening, just in case…

Gijs de Boer in Unmanned Aircraft on the North Slope of Alaska (part 2)

Apr 8, 2016

Notes from the field…

Another interesting day at Oliktok — one day I would love to have a few of the (seemingly) boring…

Gijs de Boer in Unmanned Aircraft on the North Slope of Alaska (part 2)

Apr 18, 2016

Another good (but not great) day, and homeward bound…

Gijs de Boer in Unmanned Aircraft on the North Slope of Alaska (part 2)

Apr 3, 2016

Day One…

Today was slated as a preparation day, and we did our best to get everything ready to go. At the start of the campaign, there are a variety of things that need to be done — some of them daily, others only once or twice — to ensure that we get good quality measurements. For example, we have one sensor with us…

Gijs de Boer in Unmanned Aircraft on the North Slope of Alaska (part 2)

Mar 30, 2016

Gearing up…

With our departure for the North Slope of Alaska only a day and a half away, things are getting real very quickly. Seeing the…

Gijs de Boer in Unmanned Aircraft on the North Slope of Alaska (part 2)

Apr 10, 2016

A day in the camp…

Today has been forecast to be a bad one for quite some time, and so far it’s living up to expectations. Since there was no…

Gijs de Boer in Unmanned Aircraft on the North Slope of Alaska (part 2)

Apr 9, 2016

Half way point…

We arrived on the north slope a week ago, and now have one week until we likely head home. Some campaigns go very quickly — this…

Gijs de Boer in Unmanned Aircraft on the North Slope of Alaska (part 2)

Apr 4, 2016

Of wind gusts and snow drifts…

Gijs de Boer in Unmanned Aircraft on the North Slope of Alaska (part 2)

Apr 16, 2016

Pilatus Flies!

After making the decision to extend the campaign by a couple of days, the team was optimistic and ready to go this morning. We woke…

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Unmanned Aircraft on the North Slope of Alaska (part 2)

CIRES scientist Gijs de Boer, who works in NOAA’s Earth System Research Laboratory, and a team of CU-Boulder researchers and students head to Oliktok Point, Alaska, April 2-16, to deploy unmanned aircraft to study the atmosphere. Previously: http://ciresblogs.colorado.edu/erasmus

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