Video Descriptions for SnowEx Sets Sights on Alaska

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0:00 Drone footage flying over a snowy hilltop in Boise with researchers below digging into the snow

0:04 Three female researchers carrying shovels walk away from camera across a tan farm field covered in patches of snow in Montana

0:07 Male and female researchers standing in a 5-foot-deep pit in the snow, their heads and upper torsos visible, as they take samples from the snow pit. There are tools outside of the pit against a bright blue sky.

0:10 Carrie Vuyovich in an orange parka and black balaclava kneels to load her snowmobile as rows of snowmobiles and researchers are behind her in steady snowfall

0:12 Vuyovich appears seated in a studio interview with a glowing “NASA” logo in the background with purple lighted hexagons on the wall. A graphic reading “Carrie Vuyovich, SnowEx Project Scientist, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center” appears in the lower left of the frame.

0:15 Drone footage high above seven researchers on a snowy hilltop with snow covered conifer trees in the background

0:17 Male scientist driving a yellow snowmobile in a wide arc across an open snowy Colorado mesa toward camera. The snowmobile is outfitted with large metallic arm suspending an instrument above the snow.

0:19 Vuyovich stands next to another female researcher on the same snowy mesa and observes the study site while the other researcher records on a clipboard.

0:21 Vuyovich in studio interview

0:23 Drone footage of a boreal forest in Alaska. The camera moves forward and then slowly tilts down to show snow-covered narrow conifer trees with large snowy mountains in the distance.

0:34 Drone footage over a vast open Alaskan tundra. Very flat with small snowy vegetation in the distance.

0:39 Drone footage of the University of Alaska Fairbanks with a large curved white building in the forefront and several campus buildings behind. Text appears in the lower right corner reading “University of Alaska Fairbanks”

0:47 Slow pan of a photo of Toolik Field Station. A small cluster of buildings in the foreground on a green round peninsula with vast green fields and rivers and mountains in the background.

0:49 Photo of a researcher on a snowmobile heading away from camera toward the Toolik Field Station in a completely snow-covered scene

0:50 Vuyovich in studio interview

0:53 Fullscreen graphic showing a blue map of Alaska and the SnowEx campaign sites. There are several colored snowflake icons around Fairbanks, which indicate what sites will be used for Snow Water Equivalent studies, Snow Albedo studies and a combination of Snow Water Equivalent and Snow Albedo studies. The camera pans from the lower part of Alaska to the northern coast.

1:01 A male researcher crouched in a deep snow pit observes snow crystals on a bright blue rectangular plate with a black handheld scope

1:04 A female researcher walks from left to right across the open snowy Colorado mesa carrying a very tall pole with a snow depth instrument at the base. She plunges it into the snow, pulls it out and continues walking.

1:08 Vuyovich in studio interview

1:11 Camera rotates to reveal the SWESARR instrument inside a small aircraft on a runway. The instrument is a series of gold boxes, wires and a dinner plate sized mirror facing downward.

1:18 Shot of the underside of a small prop plane flying through an all blue sky toward the sun

1:23 Fullscreen graphic showing on the left the Alaskan campaign sites on the blue map and an animation of the Sun emitting rays that bounce off the surface of snow atop a mountain

1:27 Vuyovich in studio interview

1:32 Split screen images showing the study sites on a blue map of the western United States on the left with corresponding footage of researchers in the field on the right. The first section is of Grand Mesa, Colorado, in 2017 and 2020, followed by Boise, Idaho, in 2021 and finally Moccasin, Montana, in 2021.

1:46 Vuyovich in studio interview

1:53 Drone footage slowly panning across a vast open snowy valley in Alaska. Reddish brown trees are on either side of a snow-covered river with large snowy mountains in the distance.

1:57 Young female researcher wearing a Boise State sweatshirt digging a pit in the snow

1:59 A female and male researcher walk across a snowy farm field in Montana carrying instruments for measuring snow depth

2:00 Vuyovich stands in a snow pit with two other researchers as they take snow samples and record data in a large open snowy Colorado mesa

2:03 Vuyovich stands in the snow pit alone wearing a gray wind parka and reflective sunglasses

2:05 10:26 The NASA logo, a blue circle with a red stylized arrow and a white orbit path around white letters reading “NASA”