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Let’s talk planes. Everybody likes planes, don't they? Operation IceBridge flies a P-3B Orion, tail number N426NA. You can track the plane on NASA’s flight tracker website. Development of the P-3 started in the late fifties, and production began in the

Today was my first flight aboard NASA's P-3B Orion airborne science lab. Even though I promised, and very much want to, write about all the really cutting edge, nerdy science that these brilliant people are doing ... today's journal is simply about the emotion and beauty of the day. My daughter once

Researcher Campbell visited two alma maters on April 3rd as part of an outreach effort in midcoast Maine. He arrived at his K-8 grade school, Nobleboro Central School, with slides ready to go and a plan to explain the Mount Hunter Ice Core project. I was quick to point out to current students the

I had some time to kill before the science team returned to the airport, so I took a short walk around Kangerlussuaq before heading to the airport to greet the P-3. http://youtu.be/ZTWOBv2PD64 ## Question 1) If local time at present position and estimated arrival time are the same, what does that

We’ve Only Just Begun (Journal #6) ###Tip of the Iceberg I am back home in Tulsa, starting to recover from the three hour time difference between Tulsa and Fairbanks and realizing that while they were fabulous, my adventures in Fairbanks were just the tip of the iceberg (yes, I’m making Polar puns

It's my turn in the sled. We're headed out to the CiPEHR research site about 3 miles from the field cabin. Elizabeth is driving, that's John on the back of the snowmachine. http://youtu.be/tko-hcggp_E

Willy and I made it safe and sound to Greenland. We arrived after the Operation IceBridge team had departed for the day, mapping the Jakobshavn glacier, one of the fastest moving glaciers in the world. I was hoping to see it, but with wind gusts over 35 mph and the P-3B Orion getting tossed around

The LI-COR sensor only needs to be calibrated once a season, however since the program on it had been changed it needed to be recalibrated again. The LI-COR is calibrated by setting the sensor to zero CO2 (scrubbing the sample with soda-lime mixture which removes all CO2) then setting it at a known