The theme of this season was certainly "precipitation". I kept thinking about the Forrest Gump quote, "One day, it started raining, and it didn't quit for 4 months". Luckily we...
Posted by | September 8, 2013
I spent two days doing field work on the Black Rapids Glacier in the Alaska Range. Since I was using helicopter support to wrap up equipment for the season there...
Posted by | August 28, 2013
(continuing from Days 2-6) After a kind of lazy Sunday where we mostly hung around camp to throw the cover on the theodolite whenever it really started to rain, it...
Posted by | July 20, 2013
With all the gear on top of the moraine, the theodolite and radar running more or less continuously, we spent the next day placing all the reflectors for the theodolite...
Posted by | July 9, 2013
I'm breaking this up into 2 or 3 posts since I have so many pictures and video. The entire (very large) gallery can be found here with full size images....
Posted by | May 31, 2013
I've been getting ready for our June field work on Black Rapids pretty much since we returned from our spring field work at the end of last month. We were...
Posted by | September 29, 2012
The last week of August we returned to Black Rapids for the last time this season. The purpose of this trip was to winterize the 3 continuous gps stations and...
Posted by | July 22, 2012
This was some of the best light I have ever seen in the mountains. This is still many hours before sunset, but the Sun is already getting quite low. A...
Posted by | May 16, 2012
The last week of April I went on my first field trip to the Black Rapids Glacier in the Alaska Range. It was also my first trip that involved landing...
