| Snow Photochemistry Experiment at Summit, Greenland March-May 2004
What is going on at Summit this Spring? Jack Dibb of the University of New Hampshire is leading a team of 12 other researchers from Georgia Tech, UC Irvine, UC Davis, the University ofArizona, University of Bern, the National Center for Atmospheric Research, the Cold Regions Research andEngineering Laboratory, and NASA.They on the Greenland ice sheet at Summit from mid March to early May 2004 to measure reactive chemicals in and justabove the surface snow at a time when the frozen landscape begins to emergefrom months of perpetual darkness. While Jack has been going to the scientific research facility at Summit annually since 1989, with funding from the National Science Foundation, this is the first time a large contingent of researchers will operate in such extreme conditions in an effort to make measurements at the site. For full Press Release see HERE In mid-March the average daytime temperature will be minus 45 degrees Celsius (-49 F)!
_________________________________________________________ LINKS:More info about theSummit project from UC Davis University of Arizona outreach homepage Photos from Summit, Summer 2003 Greenland Environmental Observatory at Summit, Greenland (GEOSummit) Barry's Summit Cloud Cam UNH Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space Teachers & Researchers - Exploring and Collaborating (TREC) program Link to Previous Outreach Homepage: Betsy Youngman describing our research to her classes at the Phoenix Country Day School duringher TEA (Teachers Experiencing the Arctic) involvement at Summit in summer2001. –––––––------––––– Website administered by Nicola Blake, UC Irvine |
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