Polar Services - Antarctic - Meta-Data Summaries (2008/09 Season) - G-079 Wilson

G-079 Wilson


Data Set Name:
G-079 (Data sets from multiple sites)

Investigator:
PI: Dr. Terry Wilson
Institution: Ohio State University
POC: Dr. Mike Willis
Email: willisgeology.ohio-state.edu

Data Type:
Static

Dates:
12/2008

Location:
Name: Multiple Sites on the polar plateau and coastal margins.
Coordinates: Multiple
Radius: N/A

Data Center:
Name: UNAVCO
URL: www.unavco.org
Email: archive-gpsunavco.org
Phone: 303-381-7500

Summary: The US POLENET IPY project is an international effort led by Terry Wilson of the Ohio State University, to install continuous GPS stations and seismometers throughout Antarctica to apply bedrock geodesy to measure the response to past and present day ice sheet mass change, and use seismic profiling to better understand the structure and evolution of the Antarctic plate. Most of the sites are remote and rely on solar and wind power and satellite data retrieval. With the POLENET effort now into its second season, UNAVCO continued to provide engineering design, procurement, shipping and field activities. Data management is provided by UNAVCO, and an Iridium based download system allows for full data retrieval from the remote stations with open data access at the UNAVCO GPS/GNSS archive. Weather restrictions and tight aircraft resource allocation resulted in only one of the planned 10 POLENET systems was installed during the 2008-2009 field season. This was at Deverall Island. All six of the sites flagged for maintenance and repair were successfully visited and brought up to operational condition.

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