Lunch lecture: Development of an Affordable Snowflake Camera for Research, Education, and Public Safety

On October 25th, during the lunch lecture, Aaron Kennedy will deliver a presentation on " Development of an Affordable Snowflake Camera for Research, Education, and Public Safety" 

This lecture will provide background on one component of his US-Iceland Fulbright Scholar Project: the deployment and testing of snowflake cameras in Bolungarvik. He will discuss why these cameras were developed and will promote the need for affordable, open hardware to collect environmental data. He will showcase snowflake imagery from past deployments in the United States and present 'first light' images from Iceland. The talk will close with a discussion of future plans for my cameras.

Aaron Kennedy is an Associate Professor and the Graduate Director of the Dept. of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of North Dakota. His research focuses on observing and understanding impactful weather events such as severe storms and blizzards. He is currently a Fulbright Scholar in Iceland under the National Science Foundation Arctic Research Grant. Working with the Icelandic Meteorological Office, he has deployed instrumentation in the Westfjords to observe falling and blowing snow in hopes of improving our understanding of avalanches and aiding the forecast process.

The presentation will take place in the cafeteria at the University Centre of the Westfjords and will start at 12:10. The presentation will also be streamed via a Zoom link, which can be found here: https://eu01web.zoom.us/j/69947471079

The lunch lecture will be held in English