Hey all. Kyle Crowder here. It was
another beautiful sunny day here in the Arctic Tundra. One that anyone would
dream for on spring break. My friends in the Bahamas actually had some very
similar weather today. In fact the only difference was 94 degrees Fahrenheit.
We got
a lot of great chemistry and acoustics work done today. I spent most of my time
with Becky and CDR Smith taking snow and ice samples. I had a great time with
them drilling ice cores and digging snow pits. CDR Smith and Becky were even
nice enough to let me take a few samples myself. They probably quickly regretted
that after they noticed that with only 8 credits of chemistry experience, I had
no idea what I was doing and likely contaminated a significant portion of their
data. Nevertheless, I had a good time with them and they will be taking even
more samples tomorrow. They were taking samples for snow density and are also hoping
to find some trace metals and other organic material.
Meanwhile
our acoustic team got an enormous amount of work done. CDR Hager, Sam, and Will
pulled in a good 40 Giga bites of data today. I wish them the best of luck
going through all of that. Apparently Sam got a head start listening to an hour’s
worth of data today and noticed a large spike in the data. He is speculating
that he is picking up on the sounds of a fox peeing on his site which would
explain the yellow snow around his instruments. Not exactly what he was looking
for but there is still plenty more data to go through.
We
ended the day by riding out into the sunset, taking the snow machines out to
our site on the ice. Sam, Will, and CDR Hager worked with their acoustics instruments
while the rest of us took pictures and rolled chunks of ice down the ice
mountain. When we got back the rest of
the scientist at BROMEX threw us a going away party as tomorrow will be our
last full day in Barrow.
Tomorrow we will be outreaching at the local high school so look forward to hearing from Ben to hear how that goes.
P.S. the Aurora was sweet.
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