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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. One communications technician will be needed in the vicinity of the equipment during launch support of NOAA 17 (launched in June 2002) and the DMSP satellite launch scheduled for October 2002.

Supporting Sridhar Anandakrishnan's glaciology project (IO-205-O) the McMurdo-based ICDS team will test modifications to the shot hole drill at Windless Bight and will drill 600 holes at Onset D. IN its current configuration the drill can penetrate 35 meters. By using casing in the hole, the project team will attempt to achieve 75-meter depths.

Supporting Rhett Butler's GO-090-S, the South Pole-based project team will operate the ICDS 4-inch drill system to core and then ream out three 12" diameter boreholes to a depth of about 300 meters. The USGS group will deploy seismometers into the boreholes.

Tests of new components on the drilling/reamer system are also planned for the 2002-2003 austral summer. The ICDS team will be based in a tent camp eight kilometers from the South Pole station.

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 ground stations at McMurdo and Palmer Stations aboard the RV/IB Nathaniel B. Palmer. It is distributed by ARCC to the scientific community and to support contractor meteorologists for forecasting.

No AARC project team will be traveling to Antarctica this season. Support contractor technicians will collect data from each TeraScan-equipped station. Data collection is scheduled for the maximum coverage and quantity of NOAA and DMSP data for the McMurdo region on a year-round basis. Before sending the data out, ARCC personnel check it for quality by reading and processing random collected passes.

University of Alaska Fairbanks
Geophysical Institute
903 Koyukuk Avenue
P.O. Box 757320
Fairbanks, AK 99775-7320
907.474.7107
dosborne@gi.alaska.edu
http://maxwell.gi.alaska.edu/~infra/

This group operates and maintains a CTBT (Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty) infrasound array across the globe.

In Antarctica this season, the project team will refuel and service the power system at the Windless Bight installation. Team members will establish a camp at the site, and plan to spend about two weeks in the field. The project team includes a technician from Northern Power Systems who will service the diesel generators. The CTBT Hub Room will be reconfigured to accommodate the additional equipment required by the AFTAC seismic team.

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.

Honeywell Technical Solutions, Inc.
NASA Wallops Flight Facility
Building E-106, Room 209
Wallops Island, VA 23337
757.824.2478
Ken.Griffin@csoconline.com

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.