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/

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

• Perform system checkup, repair if necessary

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 to 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.

Collectively, ICDS staff have almost three years of experience in ice drilling, successful completion of the field portion of the AMANDA project in Antarctica (Bob Morse A-130-S) including the development and construction of the AMANDA hot water drill, a variety of high-altitude drilling projects in Tibet, China, Bolivia, and Peru, and half a century of glacial geophysics in Greenland, Antarctica, and Arctic Canada.

Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Arctic and Antarctic Research Center (AARC)
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.

Support contractor technicians 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. 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://www.gi.alaska.edu/~jvo/newinfrasound/...
infrasound/members.htm

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

Project team members will refuel and service the 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.

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. This season the MGS team will relocate their equipment to the Joint Spacecraft Operations Center (JSOC).

In addition to relocating the equipment, upgrades may be performed on the system to include a RAID storage device, and system automation enhancements.