Santiago- days 1 and 2

On Sunday we took off from Boston, stopped in Atlanta, and landed in Santiago 13 hours later. It was difficult to sleep on the red eye flight, but the dinner was suprisingly good. To top it off, I even had a complimentary Leinenkugels ´Sunset Wheat.´ Reminds me of the good ole days getting a juicy burger at Soberman´s with Matt Steele, Kunal, Greg and my other Marquette buddies.

Ocean sunset outside of boston

Clouds over Chile

We arrived at 8am all very tired. We met up and rented a car and then drove to the hotel. Nice hotel in heart of Santiago. Our room was triple and the biggest hotel room Ive ever seen.

The team:

Dr. Eftyhia Zesta, project lead

Dr. Thansios Boudouridis, UCLA

Kathryn Rowe, UCLA,

Nathan Sterner, AFRL

Marina Stepanova, Chilean adviser

picture of ping pong at USACH, University of Santiago de Chile, definitely a laid back college atmosphere here-seems like there is more sleeping in the grass and ping pong here then studying

Then we went to the site to do the upgrade.

To pack up the old magnetometer system we had to...

1. Dig out sensor- tough work in the near summer heat

2. Disassemble computer and electronics

Then to put in new one...

1. Rebury sensor
2. Place GPS sensor- surprising difficult to mount on a tin roof

3. Install and calibrate new sensor

Then after finishing the work, we got hot dogs and 3 kinds of Chilean beer to watch the election. We finally turned it off around 3:30am after the major races were over. Congratulations to my Dad for a job well done!