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Oceans & Climate
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Dr. Bernhard Lettau
Program Manager
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O-314-M
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NSF/DBI (Division of Biological Infrastructure) 01-19793
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Station:
McMurdo Station
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RPSC POC:
Patricia Jackson
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Research Site(s):
Cape Crozier, Siple Station, Lake Bonney
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Dates in Antarctica:
Early October to early December
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Solar / wind powered instrumentation module development for polar environmental research
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PI Tony Hansen stands beside one of two autonomous instrumentation modules this group installed in the Dry Valleys in the 2002-03 field season. In addition to a payload of scientific instrumentation, each installation is solar-powered and sends live webcam
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Deploying Team Members:
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Jeffrey R. Blair
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Anthony D. Hansen
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Joseph D. Mastroianni
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Research Objectives:
This project will develop and test a self-contained, transportable module that will provide a sheltered, temperature-controlled interior environment for remotely deployed scientific equipment. Electric power will be provided by solar panels and a wind generator, backed up by batteries with several days' capacity. The module will offer both alternating and direct current for internal and external use and will include data logging and communications capability for practical application in a polar environment.
This field season, two modules will be deployed to support other science groups. One module supporting a remote camera will be deployed to assist the scientific objectives of project Andrew Fountain's B-425-M project at Taylor Glacier. Another will be configured to function as a stand-alone communications hub for remote field use. It will include a multiplexed Iridium link feeding a local 802.11 wireless 'cloud'. Functionally, it will provide an on-demand direct link to the Internet for wireless-equipped computers in a remote field camp without any other communications infrastructure required
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