Every field season, the USAP sponsors a variety of technical events that are not scientific research projects but instead support one or more science projects.

Michael Comberiate
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Code 422
Building 16W, Room N066
Greenbelt, MD 20771
301.286.2165
mike.comberiate@gsfc.nasa.gov
http://www.gsfc.nasa.gov/

NASA researchers will be performing maintenance and upgrades to their systems during each Austral summer season:

NAILS two-meter satellite tracking station on Ross Island:

• Perform system checkup, test and repair if necessary
• Examine spares, reorganize, and retrograde old equipment and equipment for Antarctic Museum display

MTRS1 and MTRS2 TDRS uplink station on Black Island:

• Perform system checkup, repair if necessary

The project team will work with a staff communications technician for reconfigurations and repairs. Except for AC power, heat, and internet support to the project team's equipment, normal operations will require no support from McMurdo station contractor support personnel.

Dr. Charles R. Bentley
University of Wisconsin Madison
Department of Geology and Geophysics
1215 W. Dayton Street
Madison, WI 53706
608.262.0693
bentley@geology.wisc.edu
http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/a3ri/icds

Ice Coring and Drilling Services (ICDS) at the University of Wisconsin, Madison provides ice-coring and drilling services to NSF-sponsored researchers both in the polar regions and at high-altitude sites. ICDS maintains and operates a variety of drills, and develops new systems when needed, to provide the best possible ice cores, deploy instruments within the ice, and provide access go glacial beds. At the same time, they seek to minimize the environmental impact of drilling projects and employ methods that are in compliance with applicable environmental law.

This season, all ICDS participants are deploying as integrated members of science teams. ICDS will provide direct support to several groups, including Taylor I-477-M, Sowers I-177-M, Kreutz I-191-M, and Doran B-211-M.

Dr. Dan Lubin
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Arctic and Antarctic Research Center
California Space Institute
9500 Gilman Drive, mail code 0214
La Jolla, CA 92093-0221
858.534.6369
dlubin@ucsd.edu
http://arcane.ucsd.edu

The AARC is funded to archive and distribute all NOAA and DMSP (Defense Meteorological Satellite Program) data collected south of 60 degrees. The data from polar orbiting satellites are collected by support contractor personnel at ground stations at McMurdo and Palmer Stations and onboard the RV/IB Nathaniel B. Palmer. The data are checked and distributed by AARC to the scientific community and to support contractor meteorologists for forecasting. Data collection is scheduled for the maximum coverage and quantity for the McMurdo region on a year-round basis.

Mr. Daniel L. Osborne
University of Alaska Fairbanks
Geophysical Institute
903 Koyukuk Avenue
PO Box 757320
Fairbanks, AK 99775-7320
907.474.7107
dosborne@gi.alaska.edu
http://www.gi.alaska.edu/~jvo/

This group operates and maintains a CTBT (Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty) infrasound array and Windless Bight, Ross Island.

Project team members will refuel and service and power system at the Windless Bight installation. Team members will establish a camp at the site and spend about two weeks in the field.

Data from the Windless Bight system is forwarded to the CTBT office in Vienna, as well as to the principal investigator's home institution where it will be made available for research into the natural infrasonic background.

Mr. Ken Griffin
Honeywell Technical Solutions, Inc.
NASA Wallops Flight Facility
Building E-106, Room 209
Wallops Island, VA 23337
757.824.2478
Ken.Griffin@csoconline.com
http://www.wff.nasa.gov/~code452/mcmurdo.html

NASA's McMurdo Ground Station (MGS) performs critical support for countdown, liftoff and early-orbit phases of satellite launching operations. It also tracks a variety of in-orbit scientific (TRACE, FAST, WIRE, SWAS, GRACE 1 and 2, SAC-C, CHAMP, etc.) and mapping (Radarsat, Lansat-7, QuikScat, ERS-2, etc.) satellites. MGS supplies real time data (downlink) and commanding (uplink) support to a variety of projects via NASA's dedicated 128Kbit data line. Voice support is through a dedicated 16Kbit voice loop with Goddard Space Flight Center. Radarsat, ERS-2 SAR, and Taurus START 2 treaty compliance data will be shipped back to the U.S. for processing. If requested, MGS will uplink data through the MTRS-1 ground station located on Black Island, or MTRS-2 ground station located on Crater Hill through TDRSS (Telemetry and Data Relay Satellite System) to White Sands, New Mexico.

Each austral summer, project team members at McMurdo Station are responsible for the maintenance and operation of the ground station