I am going to Toolik Lake to study the aurora. If you want to know a bit more about the aurora, you can look here. People who study space physics are interested in the aurora, because it is the most obvious manifestation of the interaction between the solar wind and the magnetic field of the Earth. I personally like studying the aurora not only becuase it is interesting science, but becuase it is beautiful.
I am going to Toolik Lake to study a particular type of aurora called flickering aurora. As the name implies, flickering aurora visibly changes intensity in time that the eye can see. I have previously studied flickering aurora at Poker Flat Research Range in Alaska, but I moved to Toolik Lake so I could search for links between flickering aurora and VLF auroral roar. More on this next post. For now, here is a picture of the aurora taken from Toolik Lake in 2007 by my friend Dirk Lummerzheim.
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