'Eureka moment' provides unique opportunity for students #westernu

Western News reporter Jason Winders quoting Crow Emily in: 'Eureka moment' provides unique opportunity for students

“Suspenders. Don’t forget suspenders,” McCullough said. “We’re both kind of short. All of our Arctic gear, which is loaned to us, even the super-powered snowpants, are a little on the big side. So the suspenders keep your pants up. But, it’s even better than that.

More Arctic Life Advice from Crow Emily to cheechako Crow Sham on their current Arctic travels in the article. Emily is safely back South and Sham is continuing to run the lidar as part of the Canadian Arctic ACE/OSIRIS Validation Campaign.

2 Crows in Eureka

ShamEurekaBalloon, a photo by Purple Crow Lidar on Flickr.

Crows Emily and Sham are back in Eureka for the ACE Arctic Campaign. As readers will know, Emily has been to Eureka several times. Sham is there for the first time. The picture shows her launching a radiosonde. I bet she is finding this quite a change from the winters in her native Sri Lanka!

Emily and Sham will principally be working on the Dalhousie CRL lidar, measuring water vapour, aerosol and cloud properties.

Updates on the campaign can be found here: http://acebox.uwaterloo.ca/eureka/, and on the CANDAC program and facilities: http://www.candac.ca.

Photo of the #CANDAC #Rayleigh #Mie #Lidar back in action from #Eureka #NWT.

 

In Situ Crow Emily and the remote Dalhousie University crew have gotten the CRL lidar going again at the PEARL Observatory in Eureka. You can follow the ACE satellite validation campaign action at http://acebox.uwaterloo.ca/eureka. Today marked the first day the Sun has (briefly) peeked over the horizon at 80 degrees North this year!