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Chris Cantrell    David Greenberg    Barry Lefer    Alison Lehnherr-George    Judy Lloyd    Oscar Peralta    Dara Salcedo

Chris Cantrell

• 3/4/2006   First local C-130 flight from Veracruz
• 3/10/2006 Another C-130 flight over Mexico
• 3/10/2006 Instrument comparison in flight
• 3/15/2006 Ruins at Zempoala

David Greenberg

• 3/4/2006   Launching Our First Balloon
• 3/6/2006   Balloon Launch!
• 3/9/2006   Short Flight
• 3/12/2006 Success!
• 3/18/2006 Jetstream 31 Science Goals
• 3/18/2006 Live from the Veracruz Operations Center!
• 3/22/2006 Pollutants on the Ground

Barry Lefer

• 3/10/2006 Hazy day at T1
• 3/11/2006 NCAR trailers arrive!
• 3/12/2006 T1 Sunphotometer
• 3/14/2006 Clouds at T1
• 3/19/2006 Mexico City Pollution

Alison Lehnherr-George

• 3/7/2006   First Day in the Field
• 3/10/2006 Launching a Weather Balloon
• 3/12/2006 Changing the Filter
• 3/13/2006 The Pyramids of Teotihuacan

Judy Lloyd

• 3/10/2006 Greetings from the Tecamac Technical University Site
• 3/13/2006 Aboard the Gulfstream G1 Airplane
• 3/29/2006 Peroxides Measured at the T1 Site

Oscar Peralta

• 3/15/2006 UNAM trailer
• 3/16/2006 Light extinction of particles
• 3/23/2006 Fire nearby T1
• 3/24/2006 What does Tecamac mean?

Dara Salcedo

• 3/4/2006   T0
• 3/4/2006   Boxes
• 3/4/2006   Crane
• 3/12/2006 Inlet
• 3/15/2006 The other side of the wall
• 3/16/2006 Cerro del Chiquihuite
• 3/20/2006 Map of Mexico City

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First local C-130 flight from Veracruz

This picture shows us getting ready for the first local flight of the NCAR/NSF C-130 flying out of Veracruz. We flew toward Mexico City, did some measurements in the Mexico City basin, and then flew West...more

Another C-130 flight over Mexico

Today we took our third local flight on the C-130. Yesterday afternoon, our supplies that we shipped from Boulder finally arrived, so we can now operate normally and repair things that are broken. In spite...more

Instrument comparison in flight

Today we flew another flight of the C-130 examining the change in the urban plume as it is processed in the atmosphere. Because there are several aircraft involved in MILAGRO, it is important to compare...more

Ruins at Zempoala

On one of our down days, we took a little trip to a small town about 20 km from Veracruz. In the little town of Zempoala (also called Cempoala), there is a large area of partially restored ruins of ancient...more

David Greenberg

Hi, my name is David Greenberg and I'm the Director of Technology for the Mohawk Trail Regional School District in western Massachusetts. I've been helping teachers use computers in their classrooms for...more

Balloon Launch!

Yesterday, we launched our first balloon. This was a test flight to make sure that all the hardware and software was functioning as planned. The two small black spheres in the picture are tracer balloons....more

Short Flight

We launched a balloon at around 3:00 local time from a site outside Mexico City. Unfortunately, the flight only lasted about an hour because the balloon went higher than it was supposed to and the flight...more