Team

Remote Sensing of Precipitation and the Boundary Layer

Mixed Phase Polar Clouds

Convective Clouds

Orographic Precipitation

Aeroecology (remote sensing of insects, birds, bats)

Electromagnetic Scattering

Making new sustainable observation systems

Utilising UAS for research

Ground-based remote sensing of the atmosphere

Atmospheric boundary layers in cold climates

Operating instrumentation in polar environments

Mixed-phase cloud physics

Mixed-phase polar clouds

Cloud microphysics

In-situ and remote sensing observations

Using UAS for atmospheric research

Instrument development

Arctic climate and global impacts as well as local-scale drivers of melt and their implications

Synoptics, energy budget, snowfall, moisture budgets, net Greenland mass balance, and microphysical processes such as cloud formation and boundary layer characteristics

In situ observation platforms/hardware, applications of machine learning algorithms, and software development for data processing

Electrical design, build and testing

Safety system design

Radar systems

Deployment logistics

Interpreting expert knowledge and practices

Ensuring conversations and decisions about environmental change are rooted in robust evidence

Supporting people to communicate in effective, accessible and inclusive ways

Reflecting the diversity of people, roles, and ideas within and beyond science e.g. by working with the arts

Multirotor drone engineering, regulations & operations:

High altitude flights into cloud/icing

Advanced flight control methods

Autonomous flight

Measurement system development, integration & validation

Economical large scale 3D Mesonets with WxUAS

Project planning and management

Travel and fieldwork logistics

Risk and safety management

Field site planning and operations

Environmental Assessments and permitting