Seismometer Installation and Open-Top Chambers Maintenance
Being an Antarctic Operator implies providing scientists with all the logistics they need to conduct their research and install their instruments. Here, we are helping Denis Lombardi to install his seismometer and accompanying Elie Verleyen while he is doing maintenance on open top chambers.
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Surveying the Gunnestadt Glacier to install the seismometer
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For the seismometer to collect good data, we need to put it on solid, flat rock. Not an easy thing to find around here.
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Bringing the gear into the field: the seismometer, the batteries and the solar panels
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The rocks need to be flattened a bit
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Denis installing and configuring the seismometer
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Configuring the GPS to be installed on top of the solar panels
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Checking that everything works before heading back to the station
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Accompanying Elie Verleyen to the Pingvinane Nunataks, some 14 km away from the station
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Open top chambers are mini-greenhouses used to artificially increase the temperature of a small area of soil in order to mimic future climate warming and see how the microbial communities change in response
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Elie collecting the data logger from one of the open top chambers and putting a new one in place
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Elie collecting data at another site
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