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Dan Osborne talks with Bill Schneider in Fairbanks, Alaska on May 4, 2000 about...
1) Personal background, childhood, and family.
California -- grew up\ Bay area -- lived\ Junior College -- attended\ transfer -- four-year college\ University of Alaska Fairbanks -- catalog\ University of Alaska Fairbanks -- application\ Alaska\ father -- general contractor\ houses -- built\ mother -- education\ mother -- college|
2) Becoming interested in science.
science\ Sputnik\ science teacher -- new\ summer school -- all science\ baby rats -- raised\ bones\ rockets -- launched\ questions -- why\ inspiration\ Alaska\ Vietnam War\ Alaska Highway -- restrictions\ United States Customs\ Canada -- envelope\ Beaver Creek -- deliver envelope|
Beaver Creek -- envelope delivered\ customs agent -- bet\ Canada\ Alaska\ Alaska -- summer 1967\ flood\ streets -- holes\ dorms\ campground -- washed away\ floors -- muddy|
4) Coming to Alaska during the flood and attending classes at University of Alaska Fairbanks.
volunteer\ undergraduate\ electronics -- ham radio\ engineering\ Alaska Alpine Club\ backpacking\ climbing\ class -- sleeping\ Duckering Building\ teacher -- lecturing|
5) Attending classes at University of Alaska Fairbanks.
Duckering Building -- hot\ Alaska Alpine Club\ Tuesday lunch\ hikes, climbs -- planning\ Wilson, Buck\ Antarctica -- proposal\ annual site -- funding\ Russia\ Stevens Village\ Wilson, Buck -- grant\ Geophysical station\ data -- collect\ Fairbanks, Alaska\ Aurora\ sonic boom\ bow wave\ waves -- cycles of|
6) The Aurora and its mystery.
Aurora -- bow wave\ pressure wave\ sound wave -- ground\ Palmer, Alaska\ western traveling\ physics\ mystery\ Stevens Village\ photograph -- magnetically recorded\ bow wave -- signature\ Aurora Infrasonic Wave (AIW)\ infrasonic wave\ monitor -- nuclear test\ nuclear tests -- above ground\ nuclear tests -- wave\ acoustical wave\ wave -- distance\ wave -- zero energy loss|
7) The Aurora and the signals it puts out, laying and fixing wire at 70 below.
signals -- north\ technician engineer\ dogsleds\ wires\ compact array\ infrasonic station\ sensors\ remote power operation\ trapline\ trails -- followed\ cable -- laying\ temperature -- 70 below\ wire -- heavy\ wire -- replacing\ splicing\ wire -- sleeping bag\ temperature -- cold\ spliced -- sleeping bag|
8) Reading the data recorded at the Stevens Village Station.
Chinese -- nuclear test signals\ station -- two years\ data -- charred paper\ waves -- coherent\ infrasonic wave\ time slip\ Poker Flat\ station -- closed\ Aurora|
training -- on-the-job\ infrasonic wave\ learn -- tutor\ Wilson, Buck\ Stevens Village\ read -- library books\ electronic books\ degree\ Poker Flat\ rocket launch -- work nights\ University of Alaska, Fairbanks|
10) Poker Flats and how it got started.
Brown, Neil\ hiring\ money\ summer -- built cabin\ climbing friend\ Frontier Sporting Goods\ job -- Poker Flat Research Range|
11) Starting job at Poker Flat and working at Fort Yukon.
Fort Yukon\ observatory\ rocket instrumentation -- operator\ Romick, Dr. Jerry\ Geophysical Institute -- optics professor\ wires -- install\ military base -- Fort Yukon\ balloon launch facility\ GI's|
12) Relationship with the GI's and going back to Poker Flat.
Poker Flat\ rocket launch\ instruments -- optic\ analog-digital system\ control -- pointing\ science officer -- optic building\ safety officer\ launch officer\ range manager -- acting\ textbooks -- engineering\ experience\ learn -- mistakes|
13) Getting married and past travels.
married\ travels -- lacking\ Antarctica -- infrasonic array installed\ Spitsbergen -- observation\ University of Alaska Fairbanks\ optic instrumentation\ house -- Indian border\ relative -- India\ house -- mortgaged\ Kashmir\ family -- traveled world\ Sicily -- Italy\ Valley of the Kings -- Egypt\ Great Pyramids -- Egypt|
14) Traveling with family around the world and changes in technology.
Great Pyramids -- Egypt\ Pyramid -- running\ traveling\ adventure\ infrasonics installation -- Antarctica\ technician\ principle investigator\ computer controls\ data -- digitized\ analysed -- auto\ electronics -- modern\ 1 bit -- [0.000003] of a volt\ instruments -- calibrate\ errors\ Geophysical Institute -- working\ Brown, Neil|
15) Working at the Geophysical Institute.
Wilson, Buck\ Brown, Neil\ projects -- volunteers\ compensation -- old days\ campuses -- power struggle\ installations\ money -- spending\ paperwork -- complications\ purchase orders -- signatures\ Stevens Village\ procedures -- old\ Alaska -- understanding|
16) The anniversary of the Geophysical Institute and where it should be headed.
roots\ experimentalists\ experiment -- specialize\ data -- collect\ proposal\ images\ space shuttle -- images\ NASA\ [red sprites]\ data -- analyze\ aircraft -- chartered\ flying -- tandem\ sweeps|
17) Collecting data from lightning and understanding it, and the need for more research.
airplanes -- flying in formation\ planes -- distance separation\ sprite\ ionosphere\ lightning bolt\ thunderhead\ solar wind\ electrical collection -- from ground\ measurements -- triangulation\ blue jets\ low light collectibility\ experiments -- more|
