Tag: Jim Drummond

Cover of CMOS Bulletin Vol.47 No.6 shows the MOPITT Instrument onboard the Terra Satellite launching in to space

CMOS Bulletin SCMO
Vol.47 No.6, December 2019

Written on January 21, 2020.

MOPITT – Measuring Pollution in the Troposphere for 20 Years

Written on December 21, 2019.

– By Prof. James R. Drummond, FRSC, Department of Physics & Atmospheric Science, Dalhousie University – Most scientific projects run for a few years and then the people involved move...

The MOPITT Terra spacecraft launch showing the Atlas IIAS lift-off on 18th December 1999 (Photo credit: Jim Drummond)

MOPITT, Atmospheric Pollution, and Me: A Personal Story

Written on February 2, 2018.

– By Jim Drummond, Principal Investigator for the Measurements Of Pollution in The Troposphere (MOPITT) instrument on the Terra satellite – It’s 1987 and I have just bought my first personal...

Cover image of Bulletin Vol. 45 No.6 shows a pickup truck driving across a deserted snowy landscape, with mountains and a setting sun in the rear.

CMOS Bulletin SCMO
Vol. 45 No. 6, December 2017

Written on December 27, 2017.

A panorama of the roof deck of the Ridge Laboratory taken late in the summer showing the air intake for the atmospheric sampler left of centre and the “penthouse” housing many upper atmosphere sounders on the right. (Photo credit: Pierre Fogal)

PEARL at the Pole: An Update on Canada’s Polar Environment Atmospheric Research Laboratory

Written on December 21, 2017.

– By the PAHA team* – The Polar Environment Atmospheric Research Laboratory (PEARL) at Eureka, Nunavut is Canada’s “PEARL near the Pole” – a scientific station fully equipped for specialised...