Editor’s note: Greg McFarquhar, director of the University of Oklahoma’s Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies and principal investigator for the Measurements of Aerosols, Radiation, and Clouds over the Southern Ocean (MARCUS) campaign, sent this update. Here I am on the Aurora Australis supply vessel in Hobart, Australia, before its voyage to the Antarctic. MARCUS principal…

Three principal investigators from the upcoming MARCUS campaign met up with scientists from the National Center for Atmospheric Research during a site survey for the companion project SOCRATES. The group members are, from left to right, Cory Wolff, Scott McClain, Chrissy Fladung, Simon Alexander, Greg McFarquhar, and Roj Marchand. Editor’s note: Greg McFarquhar, a professor…