ISS teardown is underway. Antonio and Josh got preparations underway a couple of days ago by tidying up, receiving a telehandler forklift, getting a U-Haul box truck for staging, and sorting boxes etc. Teardown began in earnest yesterday with the MISS trailer, including dismantling the 915 MHz wind profiler clutter screen, cables, and monitors, uncabling the Metek lidar, and starting data backups. Today we used the telehandler to bring down the Metek lidar from the top of MISS and packed it up, teardown the 3-meter tower, packed up the sensors from that tower and the lower part of the 10-meter tower, started taking down the RASS, packing up the ceilometer, and shutting down the UVA lidar. We also helped out the ISFS team with some of their towers.
The Modular Profiler is still operating as we're running some tests. Yesterday we operated the profiler in RIM mode and today we switched to an oversampling mode. It seemed to work well in these new modes, although I'll have to take a closer look at the data when we get back to Boulder.
We've had special guests the last couple of days. Terry Hock (ISF manager) visited yesterday and this morning, and Alison McComiskey (the new EOL Director) visited today. Both got tours of all facilities, including the last sounding of the campaign this morning. Both also pitched in with the teardown. It was great to have them visit and help out with the teardown.
Terry and Alison getting a tour of the balloon enclosure from Josh (left), and Alison launching the final sounding (right).
Tony, Clayton, and Alison dismantling an ISFS tower (left). Antonio, David, and Josh offloading the Metek lidar from MISS (right).