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SCICEX: Past and Future. Dale Chayes MG&G Seminar October 13, 1999. SCICEX Goals. Better understanding of the Arctic Using US Navy nuclear submarines Unclassified data. SCICEX Events. USS Pargo: 1993 (the blind date) MOA USS Cavalla, 1995 USS Pogy, 1996 USS Archerfish, 1997
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SCICEX: Past and Future Dale Chayes MG&G Seminar October 13, 1999
SCICEX Goals • Better understanding of the Arctic • Using US Navy nuclear submarines • Unclassified data MGG Seminar: Chayes, LDEO/CU
SCICEX Events • USS Pargo: 1993 (the blind date) • MOA • USS Cavalla, 1995 • USS Pogy, 1996 • USS Archerfish, 1997 • SCICEX 2000 Workshop • USS Hawkbill, 1998 (SCAMP) • USS Hawkbill, 1999 (SCAMP) MGG Seminar: Chayes, LDEO/CU
SCICEX Status • Submarines are the only effective underway platforms in ice-covered water • Broad scientific participation • Substantial new data in many fields • Possible extension in the future MGG Seminar: Chayes, LDEO/CU
SCAMP • Underway geophysical survey • Swath bathymetry & Image • Subbottom profiler • Gravity • Example data: • http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/SCICEX/SCAMP • Fall AGU: Oral and Poster sessions MGG Seminar: Chayes, LDEO/CU
Future: • Science opportunity in fall of 2000 • Possible 2002-2008 • extension of L. Mendel Rivers MGG Seminar: Chayes, LDEO/CU
IF the LMR is extended? • Improved instrumentation • Multibeam at multiple frequencies • Flow through water sampling • ? • New instrumentation • Magnetometer • ROV/AU • ? MGG Seminar: Chayes, LDEO/CU
More info: • SCICEX: • http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/SCICEX • SCICEX 2000 workshop: • http://psc.apl.washington.edu/scicex/scicex2000.html: • SCAMP • http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/SCICEX/SCAMP MGG Seminar: Chayes, LDEO/CU