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"Revisiting the Early History of `Sprite’ Observations." an interview with Geoff McHarg
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"Revisiting the Early History of `Sprite’ Observations." an interview with Geoff McHarg
AGU Narratives
February 19, 2019 App Interview

Sprites are electrical discharges like lightning, but up in the middle atmosphere. Having only been in the scientific literature since the 1990s, sprites captured Geoff McHarg’s imagination while observing the Aurora in Alaska. Perfect for a guy whose view of...

"For me growing up in the 60s & being a real NASA fan, working for NASA was just a really fulfilling thing." an interview with Richard Eckman
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"For me growing up in the 60s & being a real NASA fan, working for NASA was just a really fulfilling thing." an interview with Richard Eckman
AGU Narratives
February 14, 2019 App Interview

The start of a fruitful career for Richard Eckman was being on a team which discovered that the stratosphere and ozone varied in relation to the sun’s 27-day rotation. Eckman, who now works with NASA’s Atmospheric Composition Modeling and Analysis...

"You need to get into the storm, install it close enough to the lightning, and then run back to the car." an interview with Tim Lang
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"You need to get into the storm, install it close enough to the lightning, and then run back to the car." an interview with Tim Lang
AGU Narratives
February 14, 2019 App Interview

Putting up tall PVC pipes with pointy sensors to measure electrical fields in an approaching lightning storm may seem reckless, but it’s all part of the job for Timothy Lang. The NASA research scientist spends a lot of time in...

"Getting to Know Traditional Lightning and the People Who Love It." an interview with Sonja Behnke
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"Getting to Know Traditional Lightning and the People Who Love It." an interview with Sonja Behnke
AGU Narratives
February 5, 2019 App Interview

The only interviewee to describe her chosen field as a “hoot,” Sonja Behnke, Los Alamos National Laboratory, has been actively involved in atmospheric electricity research since 2008. Before that, she was a math instructor as an AmeriCorps volunteer. As a...

"There were are two paths, figure out how things work or figure out to forecast things." an interview with Paul Stackhouse
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"There were are two paths, figure out how things work or figure out to forecast things." an interview with Paul Stackhouse
AGU Narratives
February 25, 2019 App Interview

Paul Stackhouse is a sun chaser, but in his case it means measuring the surface radiation budget. This means figuring out how much sunlight gets to the surface of the planet, and takes a deep understanding of factors like cloud...