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Results And Lessons Learned From The 2024 Scales Intercomparison Effort, Tyler M. Bell, Gustavo Britto Hupsel De Azevedo, Sean Bailey, Antonio Segales

ISARRA 2026

The International Society for Atmospheric Research using Remotely piloted Aircraft (ISARRA) organized a flight week as part of their 2024 annual meeting, which took place in Oklahoma, USA from September 8-13. Small-UAS Coordination for Atmospheric Low-Level Environmental Sampling (SCALES) had three primary research foci: (1) distributed profiling across northeast Oklahoma to examine the 3D Mesonet concept; (2) urban heat island observations in Tulsa; and (3) turbulence measurements for validating building-resolving large-eddy simulations. In addition to these research objectives, SCALES sought to address WMO UAS-DC objectives of determining the accuracy of current state-of-the-art WxUAS. This supplemental objective is crucial for integration …

Scrapbook Pages

Gordon McGinnis Papers

A scrapbook pages with a black background containing newspaper clippings regarding military school eligibility and rosters. Page 1 has two clippings. The first clipping is titled 'Cycle Produces Men Eligible For Officer's School' and lists names from Headquarters, Company A, and Company B of the 67th Battalion. The second clipping is titled 'Future Officers, Cadre Men Enroll In Area Classes' and is dated Wednesday, April 29, 1942, and includes additional eligible men from the 66th Battalion and the 67th Battalion. Page 2 has one newspaper clipping titled 'Buck Private's Prayer'.

Scrapbook Page

Gordon McGinnis Papers

A scrapbook page with a black background containing two portrait photographs , a newspaper clipping, and several military-related insignia and labels. The top-left clipping is titled 'PHONES PARENTS FROM CAMP CARSON, COLORADO' and discusses Gordon McGinnis. Next to it are two black and white portraits of Gordon Brown McGinnis wearing glasses, one in a service cap and one in a garrison cap. Below these is a long label reading 'GREETINGS ON MOTHERS DAY MAY 10, 1942' featuring a USO logo. The bottom of the page displays various insignia and station labels including Camp Carson, Colorado; The Ordnance Training Center, Aberdeen …

Scrapbook Pages

Gordon McGinnis Papers

Two scrapbook pages with a black background containing clippings and photographs. On page 1 the top two clippings feature numbered illustrations of Texas wildlife, including a jackrabbit, terrapin, armadillo, roadrunner, horned toad, and cottontail rabbit. The third clipping is a text block describing these animals as species that servicemen are likely to encounter at Texas military camps. The large bottom clipping is titled 'Camp Hood, Texas' with a handwritten addition of 'Aug 1943'. Page 2 contains a black-and-white photograph and two newspaper clippings. The photograph depicts a wide view of servicemen marching in formation across an open field. The upper-left …

Texas — You Can Have It

Gordon McGinnis Papers

Poem by Ronald Pollard titled, "Texas – You Can Have It."

Turbulent Flow Impacts Of An Urban Canopy Observed Using Uas, James Pinto, Gijs De Boer, Sean Bailey, Kevin Adkins, Adam Houston, Elizabeth Smith, Avinash Muthu Krishnan, Joshua Lave

ISARRA 2026

Observations collected during the ISARRA Small-UAS Coordination for Atmospheric Low-Level Environmental Sampling (SCALES) flight week campaign are used to evaluate the NSF NCAR FastEddy^© GPU LES model run at a building resolving resolution of 5 m grid spacing.  A set of simulations were conducted using mesoscale forcings derived from the HRRR for cases collected both prior to and during the microSCALES field campaign. Observations from several turbulence-sensing UAS flown to the north and south of downtown Tulsa, OK are compared with highly resolved wind and turbulence estimates obtained with FastEddy^©. The new virtual tower capability in FastEddy …

Radiosonde Return And Reusability Evaluation For Enhanced Rapid High Altitude Weather Observations, Laura Tra, Bodie Walker, Jamey Jacob

ISARRA 2026

Radiosondes attached to weather balloons are sent into the atmosphere to measure the variations of pressure, temperature, humidity, and wind speed and direction. Generally, radiosondes are not recovered after gathering data, resulting in a negative environmental impact caused by abandoning radiosondes and allowing them to degrade, an issue that is exacerbated by the need to conduct periodic launches with multiple radiosondes to investigate changing weather patterns. To address this environmental issue, this project investigates recoverability and reusability of radiosondes. By attaching a Graw radiosonde to a Meteoglider produced by Meteomatics, data can be collected on the descent as well as …

Phasm As A Novel Atmospheric And Air–Sea Interface Sensing Platform For Coastal Boundary Layer Assessment, Daniel J. Gassen, Jamey Jacob, Jason Bruck, Paige Stevens

ISARRA 2026

Understanding coupled processes at the sea–atmosphere interface remains a major challenge in coastal meteorology, particularly in regions influenced by land–sea breeze circulations and rapid convective initiation. Traditional atmospheric observations over coastal waters are spatially sparse and often fail to capture fine-scale thermodynamic variability associated with evaporation, transpiration-like moisture exchange, aerosol transport, and biologically mediated air–sea interactions. This presentation explores a novel extension of the Passive Health Assessment for Sea Mammals (PHASM) system toward atmospheric and environmental sensing applications using uncrewed aircraft systems (UAS).

Originally developed as a minimally invasive airborne sampling platform for marine mammal hormone assessment, PHASM integrates precision …

Cfd-Based Evaluation Of Temperature Sensor Placement For Wxuas, Eduardo Michel, Gustavo Britto Hupsel De Azevedo

ISARRA 2026

Weather-sensing Unmanned Aerial Systems (WxUAS) have been used as a complementary tool for addressing the low-altitude atmospheric data gap; however, limited standardization across systems may hinder measurement comparability and introduce inconsistencies in observations.

This study evaluates temperature sensor placement considerations for a WxUAS by examining how the system influence on the surrounding environment impacts measurement accuracy. Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulations are used to model rotor-induced flow and electronics-related heating for a for a small quadcopter under idealized conditions.

Multiple simulation configurations are considered to assess how rotor wash, platform geometry, and different operational conditions influence potential sensor locations. Additionally, …

Lessons Learned From Supporting A Federally Funded Aam Project, Alana Dachtler

ISARRA 2026

InterMet Systems participated in a grant project supported by federal funds administered by the State of Michigan and a Michigan based non-profit. The goal of the project was to expand weather data access to airports in Michigan by using the CopterSonde 3. Activities supported by the grant were scheduled to take place June 2025 through July 2026. This presentation will discuss the grant application process, milestone achievements, and next steps.

Propellor Wake Decay And Crosswind Interactions, Kerrick Ray, Jamey D. Jacob

ISARRA 2026

This research explores the temporal wake decay of a propeller for small uncrewed vehicles focusing on the rate it takes for the perturbed air to return to ambient conditions, the extent that the far field wake reaches to better quantify rotary wake dissipation rates, and the effects that a crosswind has on these spatial propellor induced flow qualities. These preliminary results are intended to better optimize in situ measurements for multi-vehicle campaigns such as swarm flight applications to better understand minimum required spacing to not have the wake influence onboard sensors and flight path planning for the minimum time between …

How Does Assimilating Uas Observations From The Scales Field Campaign Impact Forecasts Of Heavy Rainfall From Hurricane Francine?, Matthew Wilson, James Pinto, Adam Houston, Gus B.H. De Azevedo, Elizabeth Smith, Tyler Bell

ISARRA 2026

The Small-UAS Coordination for Atmospheric Low-Level Environmental Sampling (SCALES) project collected coordinated UAS observations around much of northeastern Oklahoma from September 8-13 2024 as part of that year’s ISARRA conference and field week. Although the weather that week in Oklahoma was benign, Hurricane Francine made landfall well to the southeast in Louisiana on 11 September and brought heavy rainfall to much of the lower Mississippi Valley over the next two days. All UAS sampling sites from SCALES were located outside of Hurricane Francine’s circulation; however, they may have sampled features upstream of Hurricane Francine which could impact its evolution as …

Exploiting The Atmospheric Boundary Layer For Soaring Applications W/ Cfd Simulations Using Forecasts As Boundary Conditions, Brendon Cavainolo, Sweety Sarker, Michael P. Kinzel, John J. Bird, Jamie Dyer, Matthew Berk

ISARRA 2026

Estimation of local atmospheric flow is important to inform glider pilots (or autonomous controllers) of ideal soaring conditions. There are two categories of methods that assist with this: 1). Using sensor data and real-time on-board computing algorithms to predict local windfields mid-flight, or 2). Using a combination of weather forecasts, CFD simulations, and machine learning to enhance off-board prediction capability, either preflight or mid-flight. In this work we introduce WindSDK, a tool capable of unifying outputs from all of the off-board compute capabilities into one user-friendly interface. This allows real-time querying of different predictive models to enhance glider path-planning and …

Learning-Based Flow Prediction For Autonomous Soaring: From Physics-Informed To Graph Neural Networks, Sweety Sarker, Brendon Cavainolo, Michael P. Kinzel

ISARRA 2026

Real time estimation of local atmospheric flow can be useful for gliders to improve flight performance. Traditional methods for atmospheric state estimation rely on costly sensor arrays, computationally expensive CFD simulations, or estimations based on experience. All of these approaches can be successful, but present challenges. An emerging methodology from the Machine learning (ML) front involves Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PINNs), which are a data efficient machine learning methods that reconstruct the flow field (velocity, pressure, and turbulence) from a combination of constraints from the governing equations combined with sensor data. Through combining physical governing equations with sparse measurements, the neural …

Scouthive: Portable Wxuas Swarm For Distributed Atmospheric Sensing, Matthew Cann

ISARRA 2026

ScoutHive is a portable, all-inclusive four-drone weather uncrewed aircraft system (WxUAS) swarm designed for rapid deployment and remote atmospheric sensing. Fully loaded, the complete system weighs 26 lb and is housed within a carry-on-sized Pelican case for transport to austere or hard-to-access locations. Each nano-UAS weighs approximately 250 g and carries dedicated pressure, temperature, and relative humidity sensors, while horizontal wind is estimated using a calibrated Kalman filter.

The Hive base station provides storage, charging, communications, and a custom graphical user interface that supports tailored mission planning, real-time monitoring, and autonomous swarm operations of up to ten drones. Four drones …

Pike National Forest

Gordon McGinnis Papers

Image of vehicle traveling on highway passing through Pike National Forest.

Gordon Brown Mcginnis

Gordon McGinnis Papers

Image of Gordon Brown McGinnis posing wearing military uniform.

Convoy At Helen Hunt Falls

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Image of a convoy stopped at an inn near Helen Hunt Falls, Colorado.

Gordon Brown Mcginnis At Helen Hunt Falls

Gordon McGinnis Papers

Image of Gordon Brown McGinnis next to an unidentified soldier while looking down on Helen Hunt Falls.

Gordon Brown Mcginnis With Unidentified Soldiers

Gordon McGinnis Papers

Image of Gordon Brown McGinnis alongside other unidentified men wearing military uniforms. The image was taken on a bridge above the falls at Helen Hunt Falls, Colorado. The image is dated September 27, 1942.

Gordon Brown Mcginnis In Uniform

Gordon McGinnis Papers

Image of Gordon Brown McGinnis standing behind his barracks wearing his military uniform.

Unidentified Man Wearing A Military Uniform

Gordon McGinnis Papers

Image of unidentified man wearing a military uniform.

Image Of Gordon Browm Mcginnis Wearing Military Uniform

Gordon McGinnis Papers

Image of Gordon Brown McGinnis wearing military uniform.

Municipal High Drive

Gordon McGinnis Papers

Image of cars driving on the "Municipal High Drive".

Newspaper Clipping Of Gordon Mcginnis

Gordon McGinnis Papers

Newspaper clipping about Gordon B. McGinnis, son of Mr. and Mrs. Blaine McGinnis.

Image Of Gordon Brown Mcginnis

Gordon McGinnis Papers

Image of Gordon Brown McGinnis holding a rifle and wearing his drill uniform.

Death Of Henry Perry

Gordon McGinnis Papers

Newspaper clipping detailing the tragic death of Henry Perry, 36.

African American Soldiers In Germany

Gordon McGinnis Papers

Newspaper clipping from the "The Stars and Stripes Magazine" dated August 12, 1945. The article summarizes the treatment received by African American soldiers in Germany.

Harold Branson And Edwin Branson

Gordon McGinnis Papers

Newspaper clipping from the "Ohio State News" dated March 3, 1945. Pictured on the left is Private Harold Branson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Branson. Pictured on the right is Private Edwin Branson, brother of Harold Branson.

Camp Wolters Training Completion Certificate

Gordon McGinnis Papers

Certificate of completion of three weeks course at the noncommissioned officers school for private Gordon Brown McGinnis.