LARAMIE, Wyo., May 1 -- The University of Wyoming issued the following news release:
Over the course of three days in early April, the University of Wyoming Department
of Atmospheric Science took advantage of incoming weather systems in Laramie to test
its new mobile atmospheric remote sensing (MARS) trailer for the first time.
This interdisciplinary project, in collaboration with Noriaki Ohara, a UW civil engineering
professor, was funded by a $25,000 UW Tier-1 Engineering Initiative interdisciplinary-collaborative
seed grant. The grant was used to modify an unused mobile trailer to host remote sensing
instruments for atmospheric research. It also was used to pay faculty, scientists
and a graduate student for their time to make modifica...