Editor’s note: Stephen R. Springston, a scientist at Brookhaven National Laboratory and an instrument mentor for ARM’s Aerosol Observing System, sent this update.
From Manaus, Amazonia, Brazil, to Pasco, Washington, to Long Island, New York, in 4 days, a day in the life of a field scientist…
I made a pitstop in Pasco to prep the instruments on the DOE Research G-1 aircraft. The G-1 will be flying to the Amazon in two weeks. It will provide vertical and spatial context to the measurements being made continuously at the AMF1/MAOS ground site for the GOAMAZON campaign. I’ll be privileged to fly some missions and can’t wait to see from the air the area I worked in for two weeks—you get such a different perspective.
Until I go aboard the aircraft, I’ll have to put this blog on hold. We’ll have to see if the flight schedule allows time to pick up the mouse again.
By the way, flow volume out of the Amazon to the Atlantic Ocean can approach 300,000 cubic meters per second! All that rain we saw has to go somewhere!
All the best to everyone,
Stephen R. Springston