Checking on our Water Current Profiler

9/24/2015

By Peter Kimball

The sonar face is free of ice accumulation. (photo: Peter Kimball / Justin Lawrence)

The safety rope attached to the sonar is not free of ice accumulation. (photo: Peter Kimball / Justin Lawrence)

Justin and I went out to the fish hut today to check on our water current profiling sonar. We refueled the generator, verified that the computer is still logging data, and lowered a camera & light into the hole to check for ice accumulation on the transducer face. With everything in good order, we headed back to town and refueled our Pisten Bully.

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About the Blog

This is the personal blog of Peter Kimball and Evan Clark, following our deployment with the ARTEMIS long-range underwater robotic vehicle to explore beneath the McMurdo Ice Shelf in Antarctica.

Authors

Peter Kimball is an aerospace engineer and field roboticist on the Stone Aerospace ARTEMIS project.

Evan Clark is a computer scientist and field roboticist on the Stone Aerospace ARTEMIS project.

Kristof Richmond is a mechanical engineer and field roboticist on the Stone Aerospace ARTEMIS project.