e-Science from the Antarctic to the GRID

• Main Authors: Steve Benford Neil, Neil Crout C, John Crowe B, Stefan Egglestone A, Malcom Foster A, Greenhalgh A, Alastair Hampshire A, Barrie Hayes-gill B, Jan Humble A, Alex Irune A, Laybourn-parry C, Ben Palethorpe B, Timothy Reid C, Mark Sumner B
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2003
• Subjects: Antarctic; Frozen Lake; The Antarctic; Antarc*
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.9.5017; http://www.nesc.ac.uk/events/ahm2003/AHMCD/pdf/019.pdf

Monitoring life-processes in a frozen lake in the Antarctic raises many practical challenges. To supplement manual monitoring we have designed, built and successfully deployed a remote monitoring device on one of the lakes of interest. This returns data to the Antarctic base over the Iridium satelli...