PTC2015 Presentations
24-26 March 2015
Lockheed Martin ASC
Denver, Colorado, USA
Attendee List
| Tuesday March 24, 2015 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Todd Valentic | SRI International | Opening Remarks |
| Keynotes | ||
| Eric Larsen | Eric Larsen Explore | Into the Heart of Cold |
| Jennifer Mercer and Patrick Haggerty | Arctic Research Support, National Science Foundation | NSF Arctic Sciences Research Support and Logistics Program |
| Developments in Cutting Edge Technology | ||
| Faranak Davoodi | California Institute of Technology | Moball-Buoy Network |
| Robert Zook | Flying an ROV at the Ross Ice Shelf Grounding Zone | |
| Scott Palo | University of Colorado | Air Deployed Microbouys and Self-Deployed Surface Sondes |
| Iridium-based Communications Projects | ||
| Jeff O'Brien | Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution | A Linux-based Surface Controller for the Ice-Tethered Profiler |
| Larry Haughey | Iridium LLC | Iridium NEXT Update |
| Dan Wagster | Lockheed Martin ASC | South Pole Traverse Tracking and Iridium Service Status Update |
| Todd Valentic | SRI International | The Technologies Behind the Real-Time South Pole Traverse Tracking |
| Wednesday March 25, 2015 | ||
| Keynote | ||
| Bruce Felix | Lockheed Martin ASC | USAP Marine Operations |
| Autonomous Systems and Computing | ||
| David Mikolajczyk | Antarctic Meteorological Research Center | The UW-Madison Antarctic Automatic Weather Station Network: A 3-year Update |
| Lars Kalnajs | LASP - University of Colorado | Lessons learned during three years of autonomous chemical measurements in Antarctica |
| Nicolas Bayou | UNAVCO | UNAVCO - Powering Science at high latitude |
| Paul Carpenter | IRIS/PASSCAL | Projects and development at IRIS/PASSCAL Polar in 2014 and 2015 |
| Neil Miller | Lockheed Martin ASC | Skyspark analytic system |
| Michael MacFerrin | University of Colorado | Current Challenges in Monitoring Greenland's Surface Mass Balance |
| Power System Design and Best Practices | ||
| James Jarvis | APRS World, LLC | Low Temperature Test Chamber – On a Budget |
| William Stein | Black Island Wind Turbines LLC | Development of a High Reliability Wind Turbine for Polar Applications |
| Tracy Dahl | Polar Field Services | Form Follows Function - Designing Power Systems for High Latitudes |
| Posters, Vendors and Networking Session | ||
| Jeremy Miner | IRIS | Technology, Engineering, and Deployment Updates for the USArray Alaska Transportable Array Seismic Stations |
| Dongseob Shin | KOPRI | An RFID-based monitoring system for the location of scientist around King Sejong Station in the Antarctica |
| Jason Weale | CRREL | Engineering for Polar Operations, Logistics And Research (EPOLAR) |
| Thursday March 26, 2015 | ||
| Vehicles, Structures and Stations | ||
| Brandon Burmeister | Polar Field Services | Sullarniq ARC Subsurface Storage on the Greenland Ice Sheet |
| Russ Alger | Michigan Tech | Snow Strength Enhancement for the Development of Snow Pavements and Footings |
| Ari Karjalainen | Lapland University of Applied Sciences | ZEMI and eSled - Zero emission mobile instrument |
| Edvard Williamsson | Arctic Trucks |
Arctic Trucks - Polar Vehicles
Arctic Trucks - Brazilian Traverse |
| Jiwoong Chung | KOPRI | Jang Bogo Station |
| Todd Valentic | SRI International | Closing Remarks |