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Status of the Arctic and Antarctic Research Center

Status of the Arctic and Antarctic Research Center. Dan Lubin Scripps Institution of Oceanography UCSD, 9500 Gilman Drive La Lolla, CA 92093-0221 dlubin@ucsd.du AAWS-AMRC-AMPS Joint Annual Meetings Byrd Polar Research Center, 8-10 June 2005. Arctic and Antarctic Research Center.

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Status of the Arctic and Antarctic Research Center

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  1. Status of theArctic and Antarctic Research Center Dan Lubin Scripps Institution of Oceanography UCSD, 9500 Gilman Drive La Lolla, CA 92093-0221 dlubin@ucsd.du AAWS-AMRC-AMPS Joint Annual Meetings Byrd Polar Research Center, 8-10 June 2005

  2. Arctic and Antarctic Research Center • Established in 1987 by Robert H. Whritner, SIO Remote Sensing Specialist • First PI - Prof. Russ Davis, Physical Oceanography Research Division • First major contract for SeaSpace - HRPT/DMSP system at McMurdo • Second TeraScan system deployed at Palmer Station in 1990

  3. Funding Cycles - D. Lubin as PI • 1994 OPP ($1,575,000) • AARC ramps up to serve large community • Web site created • Data rescued onto DDS-2 tapes ($67,000 for Sun hardware) • Protocol to form "virtual" data center including AMRC, NSIDC, AARC • (meteorology, glaciology, oceanography) • 1998 NASA ($45,000) • Hardware seed money for DLT archive and data rescue feasibility • 1999 NSF-OPP ($693,000) • DLT archiving of all data ($35,000 for Sun hardware) • Service to community by web catalogue/browse images, tape copying and image processing by AARC staff • 2002 NSF-ITR ($500,000) • Begin automating AARC via web-accessible RAID storage

  4. The Old AARC... • Data shipped to SIO from Palmer, McMurdo on DDS-3 tapes • Data archived to DLT as they arrive • Interested users browse the catalogue, find and order their data • Staff of 2-3 people process requests of all sizes, often serving as NSF-supported research assistants for dozens of PIs.

  5. The Old AARC - Sample Custom Products

  6. The New AARC... • Most users want recent data • RAID storage device running Linux to hold past season's data • Data available in four formats via web direct download

  7. Recently Acquired Satellite Telemetry Archive (RASTA)

  8. AARC-RASTA...

  9. AARC-RASTA...

  10. AARC-RASTA...

  11. AARC-RASTA...

  12. AARC-RASTA... With these file sizes 1 year of data from one station takes ~0.7 Terabytes

  13. Annual Costs for New AARC • Maintenance Contracts • SeaSpace TeraScan, $11,000 • Sun Hardware, $1500 • Computer • RAID Storage & Controller, $2500 • Sun Workstation, $2000 every 2nd year • DLT tapes, $1300 • Internet, supplies, expenses, $1500 • People • Stipend for Sr. Programmer Frank Delahoyde, $5000 • TOTAL: $23,800 • New Tape Archiving Option: LTO Ultrium • 11-Cartridge Autochanger, $6000 • $50/tape for 400 Gb tapes

  14. Polar Remote Sensing • Dan Lubin and Rob Massom, co-authors • We contracted with Praxis Springer/Verlag to write ~500 pages, covering: • Remote Sensing Principles • Polar Stratosphere • Polar Climate & Meteorology • Sea Ice • Glaciology • Synthetic Aperture Radar • In Feb 2005 we delivered our respective chapters, preliminary typesetting revealed that we had written >1300 pages • Publisher divides it into two volumes • Volume 1: Atmosphere and Polar Oceans, Lubin & Massom, July 2005 • Volume 2: Ice Sheets, Massom and Lubin, October 2005 • Opening section of Climate & Meteorology chapter discusses AWS Program & AMRC

  15. 1.1 NASA in the Nineteenth CenturyThe Great U.S. Exploring Expedition Discovers Antarctica

  16. The Great U.S. Exploring Expedition of 1838-1842 • Part of 3-way race to claim the South Pole (France, UK, USA) • Spent 10 years mired in politics and bureaucracy, prior to 4 years at sea, • Eventual bipartisan support (Whigs and Democratic-Republicans), • Funded at $300,000 - the same percentage of the federal budget as all of NASA is today, • Specimens and memorabilia archived in the Smithsonian Institution, in other words, A Veritable 19th Century Prototype for NASA!

  17. NASA in the Nineteenth CenturyScientific Motivation "I declare that the Earth is hollow and habitable within..." John Cleves Symmes, Jr. (1770-1826) The "Newton of the West"

  18. NASA in the Nineteenth CenturyThe Administrator • The Honorable Mahlon Dickerson (1770-1853) • Secretary of the Navy during the Jackson administration • In charge of organizing, funding, and staffing the Exploring Expedition

  19. NASA in the Nineteenth CenturyThe Administrator • "Be cautious not to attempt too much business in one day." • The Honorable Mahlon Dickerson (1770-1853) • Secretary of the Navy during the Jackson administration • In charge of organizing, funding, and staffing the Exploring Expedition

  20. NASA in the Nineteenth Century "Stand up straight, you rascals!" LCDR Charles Wilkes, USN Exploring Expedition's commanding officer and physicist

  21. Polar Remote Sensing Survey • Follow-up to our e-mail survey of late 2002 • Part of ITR work plan - to help develop recommendations for better polar satellite data infrastructure • Approx. 20-30 questions about your program, covering: • Region • Discipline(s) • Sensors used and data volume • Data sources • Training and learning curves • Success or otherwise with data access • Hardware requirements • Any comments of your own • New survey to see what has changed several years into EOS era • Please complete on-line: http://calspace-sio.ucsd.edu/ • Answer as much or as little of it as you wish

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