The past two days have been spent preparing the field sites. On Thursday March 12, the team split up working on various projects. Angus (U of S) and I headed up to Fortress Mountain to dig the site for the second parsivel with Dr. Theriault's approval. We were over a metre of packed snow, so there was a lot of digging to do. Down in Kananaskis Ida was configuring the camera to take pictures of snow, while Dr. Theriault was setting up the parsivel to go up to Fortress Mountain.
The Multi Micron Radar (MRR) arrived on site early in the afternoon much to our relief, so we spent much of the evening getting it ready to install, which includes downloading the drivers, software, and configuring the instrument to our computer. By the end of the evening we managed to figure it out and get it working! Needless to say, we slept well that night.
Friday March 13th started with upper air training at the KES site. Bruce took us through the steps to launch the weather balloon, from the inflation of the balloon, the prepping of the radiosonde, to the release and monitoring of the flight. Unfortunately, the computer software was too outdated for the computer, so we were not able to log the data. However, Bruce will be sending us the software via email within a few days. While the upper air training was happening Dr. Theriault, along with technicians, Angus and May, kept busy installing the tripod and MRR within the KES site.
The afternoon was spent at a workshop involving Dr. Pomeroy, Dr. Marshall and Dr. Nasaki experts in hydrology and glaciology along with their respective students. During this workshop Dr. Theriault presented the Winter/Spring Alberta Precipitation Project to the group. It was very interesting to see how our research would be tied into research within other fields. It goes to show how science is really all interconnected.
- Juris Almonte
The Multi Micron Radar (MRR) arrived on site early in the afternoon much to our relief, so we spent much of the evening getting it ready to install, which includes downloading the drivers, software, and configuring the instrument to our computer. By the end of the evening we managed to figure it out and get it working! Needless to say, we slept well that night.
Friday March 13th started with upper air training at the KES site. Bruce took us through the steps to launch the weather balloon, from the inflation of the balloon, the prepping of the radiosonde, to the release and monitoring of the flight. Unfortunately, the computer software was too outdated for the computer, so we were not able to log the data. However, Bruce will be sending us the software via email within a few days. While the upper air training was happening Dr. Theriault, along with technicians, Angus and May, kept busy installing the tripod and MRR within the KES site.
The afternoon was spent at a workshop involving Dr. Pomeroy, Dr. Marshall and Dr. Nasaki experts in hydrology and glaciology along with their respective students. During this workshop Dr. Theriault presented the Winter/Spring Alberta Precipitation Project to the group. It was very interesting to see how our research would be tied into research within other fields. It goes to show how science is really all interconnected.
- Juris Almonte
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