Crary Instrument Lab

9/18/2015

By Peter Kimball

The resources here to support science are really impressive. We've felt very well supported by the people and equipment available. One mundane example for which I happen to have a video is the instrument lab in the Crary building. The other day, we were re-mounting a mapping sonar in the Sunfish robot, and I needed to tap some threads that had been corroded. Richard, who runs the Crary instrument lab, got me set up with a tap set, compressed air, isopropyl alcohol, pipe cleaners, and oil in no time. Tapping threads is a pretty generic task, but we've had all kinds of obscure needs met quickly and easily at McMurdo Station.

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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.