Field Campaigns

Field Campaigns
Learn more about our Field Campaigns since 2015

CSL pursues field campaigns to advance scientific knowledge of our core research areas of air quality, climate, and the stratosphere as well as to address programmatic/stakeholder priorities. Field campaigns are an essential part of the CSL science portfolio. The size and scope of the field campaigns sets CSL apart from other research institutions.

2025

2024

2023

11 March 2023
The NASA WB-57 takes off from Eielson AFB in Fairbanks, AK during Cold SABRE. Photo: Max Dollner, University of Vienna

2022

2021

2020

2019

8 August 2019
Taken from the cockpit of the NASA DC-8 at about 30,000 feet during a FIREX-AQ science flight – a historic flight for pyrocumulonimbus cloud research, providing the first detailed observations of pyroCb outflow at high altitudes. Layers of smoke in the atmosphere near the wildfire produced thunderstorm make the sun appear orange. Photo: David Peterson, NRL

2018

2017

2016

2015

2014

August 2014
A container of instruments moves up the BAO tower while the NASA P3-B flies by during the multi-agency air quality study DISCOVER-AQ. Photo: Will von Dauster, NOAA

2013

2012

2011

2010

2009

2008

April 2008
NASA P-3B in flight sampling Arctic haze layer over Alaska during ARCPAC. Photo: Julie Cozic, NOAA / CIRES

2007

2006

2005 and prior