CIMSS Students Make a Big Splash in the Desert
Jacola Roman and Elise Garms found themselves launching radiosondes at midnight in support of the JAXA/JPL team that is doing vicarious validation at Railroad Valley, Nevada, for the GOSAT satellite.
Elise Garms (left) and Jacola Roman. (photo credit: Carol Bruegge, JPL)
From 18-26 June 2011 twenty-eight investigators from eleven institutions and three countries participated in the 2011 GOSAT calibration campaign. The team worked at Railroad Valley, Nevada -- a desert playa 100 miles east of Tonopah, Nevada, and 60 miles west of Ely --- with nothing but desert in between. They had to cart in all their own food, water, and electricity.
The team did have time to take some pictures. More can be found via links on the GOSAT Calibration Campaign page.
Jacola is a first year graduate student and Elise is a senior undergrad in the AOS department. Not only are they contributing significantly to this field campaign (including assisting Robert Knuteson with the AERIbago), but they are also learning about observational science in a very hands on way.
