HR: 16:40h
AN: U24D-03    [Abstracts]
TI: POLENET: Polar Earth Observing Network for the International Polar Year
AU: Wiens, D
EM: doug@kermadec.wustl.edu
AF: Earth and Planetary Sciences, Washington University, 1 Brookings Drive, St Louis, MO 63130, United States
AU: * Wilson, T J
EM: wilson.43@osu.edu
AF: School of Earth Sciences, Ohio State University, 125 S. Oval Mall, Columbus, OH 43210, United States
AU: Dietrich, R
EM: dietrich@ipg.geo.tu-dresden.de
AF: Institut fuer Planetare Geodasie, TU Dresden, Helmholtzstr. 10, Dresden, 01062, Germany
AB: The Polar Earth Observing Network (POLENET) multinational consortium has begun deployment of new networks of in situ sensors in the Arctic and across Antarctica for the International Polar Year (IPY). Activities already underway and planned for the IPY period will be reviewed. Efforts are focused on deployment of autonomous observatories at remote sites on the continents and offshore, coordinated with measurements made at permanent station observatories and by satellite campaigns. Measurements (in situ, satellite and airborne) will include GPS (w/ GLONASS, Galileo; GPS occultation/met sensors), seismic, gravity, geomagnetic, tide gauges and ocean bottom sensors, oceanographic (in situ and altimetry) and chemical (at offshore sites). Multidisciplinary deep sea observatories on the polar seafloor will perform continuous collection of geophysical, oceanographic and geochemical data. The POLENET initiative is designed to provide a legacy in observational infrastructure in the polar regions and in the technological capability to overcome the challenges of autonomous operations in extreme environments.
DE: 0762 Mass balance (1218, 1223)
DE: 1243 Space geodetic surveys
DE: 7294 Seismic instruments and networks (0935, 3025)
DE: 9310 Antarctica (4207)
SC: Union [U]
MN: 2007 Fall Meeting