Kangerlussuaq 2015

It is a good day here in Kangerlussuaq, bright, shiny and pleasantly chilly.  We arrived here last night about 7:00 pm local time.  The flight from Scotia NY - Goose Bay Nova Scotia - Kangerlussuaq took  ~ 8 hours of total flight time.  The LC-130 we flew on was an old friend of mine Tail# 31096 - nicknamed "City of Christchurch".  It is one of the older LC-130's in the ANG stable and she is showing her age.  The flight was louder than normal and had a high frequency buzz that was highly annoying.  I spent most the last 3.5 hours standing and trying to find a spot that didn't make me feel like I was standing on a blender.

My friend Ryan was at the KISS (Kangerlussuaq International Science Support) building when we pulled in, he greeted us and then went straight to bed.  He had flown in from Copenhagen earlier in the day.  I finally made it to bed around 11 pm and was able to sleep until a little before 6 am.  After a quick shower, I took the first of three breakfast shuttles over to the airport cafeteria and had a quick bit to eat.  It was a decent meal, nothing spectacular, just good ol'comfort food.

Not much else is going on, and i will be talkin to u'all later.

Ciao

2015 Polar Field Season Underway

Hi Everybody,

I know that I have not updated this blog in a while, over a year in fact.  But here we go with another Polar Field Season underway.  This year I am going back to Summit camp on two projects, one a Laser Project (CAPABL) and the second the Meteorological Program for NOAA.  Most of my time should be taken up by the Met program which I will go into in a later post.

This entry should be just a quick update from Clifton Park New York the night before we are to leave on the 109th ANG LC-130's.  The next update should be from Kangerlussauq.

Mike