{"id":879,"date":"2011-01-06T11:06:05","date_gmt":"2011-01-06T16:06:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/nsslnews\/?p=879"},"modified":"2022-05-31T09:39:22","modified_gmt":"2022-05-31T14:39:22","slug":"an-office-and-a-workbench","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/nsslnews\/2011\/01\/an-office-and-a-workbench\/","title":{"rendered":"An office and a workbench"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_892\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-892\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/nsslnews\/2011\/01\/an-office-and-a-workbench\/img_0472\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-892\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-892 size-medium\" title=\"IMG_0472\" src=\"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/nsslnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2011\/01\/IMG_0472-400x300.jpg\" alt=\"HD Particle Imager\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/nsslnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2011\/01\/IMG_0472-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/nsslnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2011\/01\/IMG_0472-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/nsslnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2011\/01\/IMG_0472-800x600.jpg 800w, https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/nsslnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2011\/01\/IMG_0472-200x150.jpg 200w, https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/nsslnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2011\/01\/IMG_0472.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 100vw, (max-width: 1200px) 60vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-892\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The HD Particle Imager in the machine shop<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Dave has an office on the 4<sup>th<\/sup> floor of the National Weather Center, and a workbench in NSSL\u2019s machine shop down in the \u201cvehicle bay.\u201d\u00a0 The shop looks like a miniature Home Depot; an organized clutter of soldering guns, wires and voltage meters.\u00a0 Shelves are stacked with radiosondes, electric field meters, balloon launching materials and the high-wind balloon launching tube he built out of a plastic swimming pool cover and Velcro.\u00a0 Helium tanks line the walls under white boards with schematic drawings of the HD Particle Imager.\u00a0 This is where creativity takes shape and inventions are born.<\/p>\n<p>With calls for his launch teams to report to the vehicle bay late at night to intercept approaching storms, it has been hard to tell Dave is trying to retire.\u00a0 He plans to continue his research, but at a slower pace. A lifetime of curiosity and ingenuity has made Dave Rust a pioneer and an expert in the field of storm electricity, and we at NSSL are grateful for his vision and impact.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With calls for his launch teams to report to the vehicle bay late at night to intercept approaching storms, it has been hard to tell Dave is trying to retire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":892,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_eb_attr":"","ghostkit_customizer_options":"","ghostkit_custom_css":"","ghostkit_custom_js_head":"","ghostkit_custom_js_foot":"","ghostkit_typography":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[87,173,222,273,336],"class_list":["post-879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-radar","tag-dave-rust","tag-hd-particle-imager","tag-issue-january-2011","tag-machine-shop","tag-nssl"],"acf":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/nsslnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/nsslnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/nsslnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/nsslnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/nsslnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=879"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/nsslnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5680,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/nsslnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879\/revisions\/5680"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/nsslnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/nsslnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/nsslnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/nsslnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}