Tuesday, January 29, 2019

PRI's The World audio and article

Hello, again! It turns out that I was not quite done with posts for the Antarctic Precipitation Project (APS) 2081 field season. The APS project was featured in a PRI (Public Radio International) audio piece that is being broadcast on the radio. Instead of randomly coming across the audio interview/documentary, you can listen to it online at:
https://www.pri.org/stories/2019-01-29/unexpected-challenge-antarctica-measuring-snowfall
(The audio is accessed by the "Play" button above the top photo.)
There is also a written article and several photos to go with the audio story. As of this moment, the story is the top headline on the PRI website and with PRI's "The World". I am not included in the audio documentary but my colleague Scott is interviewed. During our first weekend of the field season, we took Caitlin Saks, the NOVA/PRI documentarian, with us into the field. Caitlin did the audio documentary and the written article, both of which are very well done. They have also posted a nice video from the afternoon at the Willie Field site on their Instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/p/BtO-woBgo0A/

Caitlin interviewing Scott at the Willie Field APS instrument tower.         
Scott was working on the precipitating gauge, located at the center of the wind shield, and Caitlin brought the microphone and recorder inside the shield to record some questions with the wind creating the noise with the shield.         
By the time we left the Willie Field APS site, the winds had picked up to around 20 mph and there was light blowing snow at the surface. 

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