Status of the Arctic and Antarctic Research Center

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Status of theArctic and Antarctic Research Center

• Dan Lubin
• Scripps Institution of Oceanography
• UCSD, 9500 Gilman Drive
• La Lolla, CA 92093-0221
• dlubin_at_ucsd.du
• AAWS-AMRC-AMPS Joint Annual Meetings
• Byrd Polar Research Center, 8-10 June 2005

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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

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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

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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.

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The Old AARC - Sample Custom Products
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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

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Recently Acquired Satellite Telemetry Archive
(RASTA)
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AARC-RASTA...
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AARC-RASTA...
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AARC-RASTA...
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AARC-RASTA...
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AARC-RASTA...
With these file sizes 1 year of data from one
station takes 0.7 Terabytes
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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

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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 gt1300 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

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

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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

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