EPIC's Polar Group Revs Up for Antarctic Summer
This is the time of year when the Polar group at EPIC is busy deploying teams to the Antarctic. Since polar conditions make for difficult site installations, EPIC is pleased to present the following instructive videos of Antarctic station deployments.
Courtesy of Audrey Huerta of Central Washington University, here is a time-lapse video of the difficult installation of a POLENET seismic system on a rock surface at Miller Ridge in the Transantarctic Mountains. This installation took about 4 hours in real-time. You will see shadows encroaching as the sun sets toward the end of the four-minute video.
The personnel appearing in the movie include Audrey Huerta, Don Voigt, Paul Winberry, and the Ken Borek Flying Team.
The following short video, also courtesy Audrey Huerta, shows Don Voigt using a chain saw to cut the ice for a base for the solar panels. This is from another POLENET installation in the Transantarctic Mountains. Be advised that this one-minute movie has sound, and chainsaws and Antarctic winds are loud!
To find out more about Polar Programs at EPIC, contact Paul Carpenter , Polar Projects Manager at EPIC.
- Home
- General Information
- Instrumentation
- Dataloggers
- Sensors
- All-In-One Systems
- Power Systems
- Field Procedures
- Controlled Sources
- Seismic Source Facility
- Magnetotelluric Systems at EPIC
- Ground Penetrating Radar
- Power and Memory Calculations Form
- Data Archiving
- Apply for a PI Account
- Experiment Scheduling
- Polar
- Hardware & Software Notes
- Software
Also See
- EarthScope/EPIC Intern Caps Busy Summer with Alaska Deployment at Poker Flat
- SEIS-UK joins EarthScope/EPIC on Support Effort for Antarctic Projects
- EPIC Scientist Describes Working in Antarctica for Enthusiastic Library Audience
- EPIC Intern Spends Summer on the Ice
- Transantarctic Mountains Deployments