| Summary: | This section of the archive covers the Ice Survey conducted off the coast of Barrow Alaska in March 2013. A single transect was created as a ground truth line from which NASA IceBridge and NRL airborne missions could calibrate their instruments. The US Naval Academy team lead by LCDR John Woods was chief scientist for NAICEX. Two faculty and three students from the University of Delaware (UD) worked on the ice under the coordination of John Woods to collect ice survey data to support education and field exercises for Navy Cadets. CDR Angela Walker under Admiral White was present for three days to evaluate these exercises and promote future educational exercises. The UD portion was pulled together under an extremely tight budget with only two months to prepare, but that team performed very well and was able to bring together a small but very effective survey exercise involving the following simple instruments: Surveying of sea ice topography with polar grade TopCon Survey Gun GIS mapping of large scale events with ArcGIS software Electromagnetic Induction (EMI) profiling of sea ice thickness Drill hole validations These four data sets are included here with forthcoming papers on new EMI calibrations coming shortly through the Ph.D. doctoral work of Jesse P. Samluk; the Ph.D. student supported through this project.
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