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2006 UAS NEWS RELEASE ARCHIVES |
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July 30, 2006 NASA awarded the University of Alaska Southeast $881,755 to create SEAMONSTER, a wireless data network to aid in remote research projects throughout Southeast. The acronym SEAMONSTER stand for Southeast Alaska Monitoring Network for Science, Telecommunications, and Educational Research and will be capable of sending research data as it is collected for analysis at UAS. “The importance of the real-time capability is the ability to examine data as it comes in, instead of having travel to remote places to download data from monitoring devices,” said UAS Assist. Prof. of Environmental Science Eran Hood, one of the grant recipients. The grant will support undergraduate research for environmental science students and helicopter air time to get to the remote places where the wireless infrastructure needs to be created. The network will extend from the Mendenhall Glacier and Juneau Icefield through Berners Bay to and may extend as far as Glacier Bay. It will use satellite hook-ups and radio modems to return data. “It going to be very exciting for the environmental science students who get to work on this project,” said Assist. Prof. of Physics Matt Heavner, the principal investigator of the grant. “The network and the information it transmits will benefit the entire Juneau research community, and be used to educate our students in the classroom.”The wireless network developed at UAS will return data on research project such as glacier dynamics and mass balance measurements from the Juneau Icefiled and glaciers throughout the region. It will also aid on-going research projects in watershed hydrology, coastal marine ecology, and human impact and hazard monitoring. -30- Contact: UAS Assist. Prof. of Environmental Science Eran Hood 796-6244 |
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