While a student at MIT, I had the opportunity to work on developing a new inlet for studying mixed-phase clouds. Along with primary investigator Dan Cziczo and postdoctoral fellow Michael Rösch, I designed and built the Phase Separation Inlet for Droplets, Ice Residuals, and Interstitial Aerosol Particles (SPIDER).

While this website didn’t exist when I was at MIT, I wanted to pay homage to some of the previous blog posts I made, as well as other coverage of this project.

My blog posts are listed below:

  • (04/15/2017) SPIDER WEB: The Introduction: an overview of the process of designing and building the SPIDER inlet.
  • (04/19/2017) Getting to Mount Washington: a story about four trips up to the Mount Washington Observatory, and what it takes to get an instrument like SPIDER onto a frozen mountaintop.
  • (04/23/2017) Daily Summit Log: a summary of my daily routine during my week doing field work at the Mount Washington Observatory

Other coverage of SPIDER: