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OWLeS in Snow

Millersville meteorology professors Drs. Todd Sikora and Richard Clark, along with MU students, join climate researchers in Geneva, N.Y.

For the past few weeks, 24 Millersville University students and two meteorology professors, Dr. Todd Sikora and Dr. Richard Clark, have joined researchers from across the country to convene in Geneva, N.Y. The students are there to launch weather balloons, monitor surface conditions and photograph ice crystals as part of the NSF-funded Ontario Winter Lake-effect Systems (OWLeS) project.

 

Millersville students visited and were trained in the use of the University of Wyoming King Air aircraft as a research platform. Three Millersville students will have the opportunity to fly on the King Air during their time in New York.

 

 

 

 

Millersville deploys a new type of balloon called a Helikite to capture high resolution detail in the lower atmosphere under high wind conditions.  “The balloon is very stable even when the wind speed approaches 45 mph,” said Dr. Richard Clark, OWLeS project scientist.

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