Well, well. Here it is, April in Golden Colorado and it is time for me to start getting ready for my 2014 deployment to Summit Camp Greenland. This year, I am heading to Summit with my new job, or old job, or the project I originally went with 3 years ago. This will be my fourth season up on the Greenland Ice Sheet (GIS) and my second early season deployment. I will be doing several things this year, most of which I have done in the past, some I haven't done before.
I am heading north with the CAPABL project, (Cloud, Aerosol Polarization And Backscatter Lidar) like I did back in 2011. Last year the project upgraded the original Lidar to Version 2.0, which promptly died. They have spent the last year trying to figure out what happened and are planning on going up and doing a major remodel of the instrument into Version 2.5. I will be going to help with this upgrade.
The other part of my trip to Summit is to do the prep work for our 2015 deployment of the new SUPR Lidar. This project will be taking a majority of my time between now and January 1, 2015. This Lidar is a major upgrade to the CAPABL system, with a more powerful laser, much larger telescope and six different data channels. I am really looking forward to getting this beast online and taking data.
Over the next week, I will be updating this blog to set the stage for this years trip.
Hold on folks, this will be one heck of a trip.
M.
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