HISTORY OF WINTER-Thermochron Mission

Last year at HOW 2007, as part of the launch of the Indigenous IPY, the HOW program provided Thermochrons and Global Snowflake collection techniques to the expeditions FINNMARK2007 and POLAR Husky GoNorth 2007. This was an inaugural field demonstration of the capabilities of continuous Thermochron monitoring of expedition temperature - demonstrating how otherwise inaccessible snowflake information of vital interest to NASA and others interested in the Polar region snow could be effectively and efficiently acquired. In addition, reindeer herder and Ph.D. student Inger Marie G. Eira was provided with Thermochrons and snowflake collection materials. She plans to incorporate the HOW techniques: thermochrons, snow pit observations, and snowflake identification protocols into her Ph.D. dissertation on snow changes, and reindeer pasturing.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• IPY
• SNOW
• ICE
• POLAR
• ALASKA
• CRYOSPHERE
• CLIMATE
• CHANGE
• INDIGENOUS
• SNOWFLAKE
• SNOWCHANGE

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Thermochron Man rocks!

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Thermochron Man rocks!