Visiting the Dry Valley Met Stations with Hassan Basagic

December 23rd, 2007 andrea Posted in news, sounds | Comments Off on Visiting the Dry Valley Met Stations with Hassan Basagic

lake bonney met station with hassan
I spent the last four days following LTER Science Technician/Portland State University Research Assistant Hassan Basagic around to various meteorological monitoring (met station) sites in the Dry Valleys while camped out at Lake Hoare next to the Canada glacier. Besides being an expert on glacial ecosystems, Hassan is an electronics expert who provides support for several LTER projects.

This trip we traveled to three met station sites via helicopter where Hassan was checking and replacing equipment and downloading data: Taylor Glacier, Lake Bonney and Bonney Riegel. Here is a recording of part of our flight to Lake Bonney, with the voices of Hassan and the pilot:

Met station data: http://www.mcmlter.org/queries/met/met_stations.jsp
More about Hassan’s research: http://web.pdx.edu/~basagic/

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