Atmospheric Research Guy

Here is Brian at the research field station on Whiteface Mountain in the Adirondack Mountains. He has been traveling up there once or twice a week for part of the summer to do field research. His work is researching air pollution and specifically he works on characterizing nano size particles. I guess they monitor air quality at that elevation.

He was up there the day of the infamous basement flood. I tried to text message him several times about the mess in the basement, but apparently there was no cell reception there.  As he was driving back toward Albany and his cell reception returned, he got a series of text messages from me that must have sounded a little frantic.

I grew up in the north country and have relatives spread around the Adirondack Mountains. I fondly remember going to Whiteface Mt. many times as a child.  There is a ski resort there used in the Lake Placid Olympics, but I most remember it as the mountain that you could drive up very close to the top.  Then after parking your car you entered a long tunnel in the mountain where you came to an elevator that took you to the top of the mountain in the middle of a gift shop.

The other neat memory of that area is a little village near the base of the mountain with the name North Pole, NY.  There is a little tourist theme park there called Santa’s Workshop that my family went to frequently. In the middle of this theme park is a frozen pole of ice that stays frozen even in the summer. I think it would be a great trip for us to take Darius on some day.