http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu Fri, 24 May 2013 19:28:34 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/04/29/switchyard-project-day-1-alert-alert-alert/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/04/29/switchyard-project-day-1-alert-alert-alert/#comments Fri, 29 Apr 2011 13:59:43 +0000 Ronny Friedrich http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=14153 The first day of our operation is usually filled with a lot of work preparing and testing the instruments we brought up here, preparing the airplanes, loading our equipment into the planes, setting up the equipment in the laboratory and preparing the sampling containers. Since our operation requires drilling holes through the sea ice, we [...]]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/04/29/switchyard-project-day-1-alert-alert-alert/feed/ 0 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/04/28/switchyard-project-in-transit-part-2/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/04/28/switchyard-project-in-transit-part-2/#comments Thu, 28 Apr 2011 14:30:47 +0000 Ronny Friedrich http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=14026 April 27, 2011: We spent the night in Thule in the North Star Hotel. Before we could leave Thule the crew had to load the cargo back into the C130. Equipment is loaded onto palettes, and these palettes are loaded through the rear door into the plane. A C130 can handle four palettes with two tons of cargo [...]]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/04/28/switchyard-project-in-transit-part-2/feed/ 0 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/04/28/switchyard-project-in-transit-part-1/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/04/28/switchyard-project-in-transit-part-1/#comments Thu, 28 Apr 2011 14:10:56 +0000 Ronny Friedrich http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=14016 Bags are packed and ready to go. April 25, 2011: We left Lamont in the afternoon to Schenectady, close to Scotia where the 109th Airlift Wing of the New York Air National Guard is located that will fly us up to CFS Alert. That unit provides extensive logistical support for all U.S. science operations in the arctic and [...]]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/04/28/switchyard-project-in-transit-part-1/feed/ 0 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/04/28/switchyard-project-tracking-the-arctic-seascape/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/04/28/switchyard-project-tracking-the-arctic-seascape/#comments Thu, 28 Apr 2011 13:51:57 +0000 Ronny Friedrich http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=14011 Arctic summer sea ice is declining rapidly: a trend with enormous implications for global weather and climate. The multi-year Arctic Switchyard project will seek to distinguish the effects of natural climate variability from those of human-induced climate change.]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/04/28/switchyard-project-tracking-the-arctic-seascape/feed/ 0