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Nancy Ash Hann

Deputy Chief, NOAA Operations Center

Alaska's Unmanned Aircraft Research

About Nancy

Nancy Ash Hann is a Deputy Chief in the Programs and Projects Division at the NOAA Aircraft Operations Center. When Nancy is not flying she participates in outreach activities and answers many questions from students.

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A Walrus at the Edge of the Ice

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Laura Nielsen for Frontier Scientists Sea ice is the foundation of an entire Arctic ecosystem. Algae flourishes where the ice is active, providing sustenance for hordes of zooplankton. Birds feed on schools of small fish sustained by the zooplankton. There are species of seabirds which live here and nowhere else, and others whose natural rhythms [...]
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Fairbanks, Alaska, August 14, 2012— Three videos detail the Unmanned Aircraft work from the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF). In March, Greg Walker, UAF’s Unmanned Aircraft Program Manager, led research in the Aleutians. Walker flies the UAVs in just about all conditions except freezing rain which would stick to delicate equipment. “We’ve regularly flown in [...]
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Flying machines for the dirty, dull and dangerous

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by Ned Rozell Some places in this world are just too dirty, dull or dangerous for human pilots to fly. An airspace in the latter category is anywhere near gas flares in Alask’s oil fields. With only a few seconds of warning, flames blast high in the air from a network of pipes, releasing the [...]
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