Roof box woes

Trev and I were on the Discovery Cruise when the roof box to house our inlet was delivered so we didn’t have a chance to check the box for size. It turns out the roof box looks nothing like the drawings we sent to the manufacturer! So we’ve had to ditch the box and make our own inlet cover. This involved an entire day of Styrofoam, gaffa tape and hack-saws. Very scientific! But at least we now have an extremely well insulated cover to house the inlet and gating boxes. Trev was so proud he decided to brand the cover:


University of Manchester:
James Dorsey and Mike Flynn are running the Manchester kit for Martin Gallagher. They are looking at the production of particles by the halocarbons and iodine given off by freezing sea ice – particularly frost flowers. This involves digging a number of holes in the sea ice and installing a chamber over the exposed water. On a meteorology mast also out on the ice they are measuring ozone fluxes, water vapour fluxes (latent and sensible heat) and aerosol properties to name but a few. Both Mike and James spend a lot of time out on the ice!