Dumont d’Urville

1. Concordia Station McMurdo Concordia Station Dome C Mid Point D-85 Mario Zucchelli Station Baia Terra Nova C-3 D-10 Dumont d’Urville

2. A Typical Calendarfor Expeditions 30/11-03/12 31/12-03/01 29/01-31/01

3. Personnel transportation Personnel is transferred to Dome C by Twin Otter flights. Only special materials and equipments which couldn’t stand low temperature or vibrations are allowed to be send to CHCH by commercial ship (there are 3 scheduled ships departing from August to October) and in connection with Hercules flights or Italica Ship to be delivered to MZS and, then, to DomeC by Twin Otter. Each special delivery should be authorized by each polar Institute, enquiring with weight and boxes dimensions.

4. MATERIAL TRANSPORTATION DDU • From DDU, situated on an island (in Figure), materials are transferred to CAP Prud' Homme Station (CPH), site on the Antarctic continent from which the French Traverse (RAID) departs. • Because of site shape, the Astrolabe ship can’t arrive directly to CPH, so that materials have to be transferred from DDU to CPH: • - during the summer by helicopter; • - in January there is the possibility to use a barge, but such opportunity remains function of the marine ice and meteorological condition; • - during the winter it is hauled on ice. • The accessibility to DDU is function of weather conditions too. • Each RAID is made up of a certain number of tractors and trailers, to transport packed into container or unpacked materials (RAID composition type in Figure). CPH 30/11-03/12 31/12-03/01 29/01-31/01

5. Personnel during Summer Last Summer Campaign

6. Last Summer Campaign

7. Dome C Seismology Vaisala weather station Geomagnetism Clean Area 1.050m Obs. Summer camp Glaciology Astroconcordia Concordia Shelter HF

8. The Camp Epica lab. 33 m (83mq) disassembled

9. Summer Camp Main building Power Generator: Garage tent Dormitory tents Storages tents 1.400 sq buildings 57 beds max Drilling tent Labs

10. Concordia Station

11. Concordia Station Main Buildings Laboratories radio room Kitchen dining room Bedrooms Storages sport room Medical workshops Calm Noisy

12. Inside the buildings Laboratories radio room Kitchen dining room Bedrooms Storages sports room Medical Calm Noisy workshops

13. Astronomy lab Glaciology lab Atmospheric chemmistry lab Sismology lab

14. Medical Bedrooms

15. Leaving room

16. Kitchen Video room Sport room Workshop

17. Power station Power supplyed in kW The Power station during the last summer campaign Fuel consumption The main parameter for the power station was efficiency to reduce the fuel consumption, aimed both to minimize environmental impact and costs. It is made up of 3 Diesel generators adapted to the particular conditions of the air in DomeC. Each Generator can deliver 125 kW at full load and the system is a co generator one that lets the recovering of waste heat both from exhaust air and from the cooling jacket water (for a total amount of around 80%). For safety reasons, there is also an emergency diesel generator inside the noisy building.

18. Activity Sect. During the last summer campaign the total ammount of power supplyed outside the station for research activities was 37 kW; it was delivered by sylicon cables on wooden pylons.

19. Waste water treatment To collect grey and black waterthe station is equipped with a vacuum system that lets a reduction of 80% of water consumption referred to traditional ones. Wastewaters are later treated by a reverse osmosis system developed in cooperation with ESA (EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY).

20. Water production and water recycling

21. Research activities Seismology Weather station Geomagnetism Geomagnetism Atmospheric chemistry: Glaciology Refuelling Astronomic site Gray water mud Snow drawing 32 m Tower

22. The idea for the future Seismology Weather station Geomagnetism Atmospheric chemistry: Geomagnetism Glaciology Clean air area Refuelling Astronomic site Astronomic sector Gray water mud Snow drawing 32 m Tower

23. Astronomic site

26. 20 m 4,2 m 3,5 m COCHISE

28. Some laboratoryes were disassembled in order to use the modular panels to built a structure to support the research acrtivities.

29. Telecommunications Outside the Station:1 Inmarsat Standard B 1 Inmarsat Fleet -2 Inmarsat Standard B-2 Inmarsat Fleet77-4 fax-2 Iridium -2 Iridium (mobile)-2 Standard C-1 SAE IPX 300 Full (with 6 wifi access point) -1 HF Rode&Swartz, 150 W-2 marine VHF;-2 avio VHF -1 HF Motorola Micom2,125 W;-1 VHF marine Motorola MC900

30. Inside the Station 1 InmarsatStandard B 1 Inmarsat Fleet

31. Radio Room Inside the station the local area network is made up by a pysical part (the plugs in each room connected to a rack for each level) and an Active part (a switch at each level connected by fibber optic to the Main Switch, that is the center of the system, settled in the radio room). The connection runs at 1 Gbps Switch Ethernet -Enterasys 24 plugs Rj45 10/100 Mb/s Center switch Fibber optic cable

32. Emergency Radio room • 1 inmarsat Standard C • 1 Iridium- 1 WiFi connection

33. 1WiFi 54Mbit/sec 1WiFi 54Mbit/sec Data connection Seismology 1WiFi 54Mbit/sec Weather station 1 Cable connection; 1 Radiomodem Geomagnetism Geomagnetism Atmospheric chemistry: Glaciology 1 WiFi 54Mbit/sec 1 WiFi 54Mbit/sec Refuelling Astronomic site fibber optic; 1WiFi (bakeup connection) 54Mbit/sec Gray water mud Snow drawing 1WiFi 54Mbit/sec - fibber Optic 32 m Tower

34. ASTROCONCORDIA:

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36. Thanks for attention chiara.montanari@consorzio.pnra.it