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Doing Seismology in Antarctica. Crazy idea? You'd be surprised how many crazy souls are out there.
Tags: antarctica, geoscience, science, seismology
Author: Alessia Maggi

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Tests of CASE-IPY stations

Dec 22, 2009
It is warm today : -30 degrees with little or no wind. A relief after the past few days... The CASE-IPY experiment is proceeding nicely. Today we have started full-scale tests of the equipment we are to deploy. We have connected up the 3 solar...

Recovery of CASE stations complete

Dec 21, 2009
This morning we went into the field with the Flexmobile again to recover the last of the three prototype CASE-IPY stations (CAS02). The team from the last expedition was augmented by two extra volunteers, so we could dig faster. We also took along a...

CASE recovery started

Dec 19, 2009
Yesterday we went on our first field mission of the summer campaign. The objective was to recover data and some of the instrumentation from two of the three prototype CASE-IPY stations deployed around Concordia (recovery from the third station is...

Driving lessons

Dec 16, 2009
High on the priority list of things to do for the CASE-IPY experiment is to recover the data from the second year of deployment of the CAS01, CAS02, CAS03 prototype stations. These stations are at 5 km from Concordia, and can be reached using a...

Solar panels and seismometers

Dec 16, 2009
Today was the first working day of the summer campaign. We spent most of it preparing the 15 solar panels we shall be installing at our 5 CASE-IPY stations. We also found time for playing with the new seismometers we shall deploy at these stations,...


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