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Thanks to Glacier Jeeps who carried our heavy drill equipment to the site. Quite a bumpy ride but they make it look easy!
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Thanks to a strong geography team the ice drilling, marking out the area and radar were completed flawlessly. (the good weather we had most of the trip helped!) - Here Stuart is making holes for markers so we can keep track of where everything is.
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The new base station case was re- engineered to be stronger than ever before to withstand the Iceland winter.
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The neatest base station box we have made. Jeff's reinforcements would help if something drastic happened to it (see last Norway pages). The main system is based around a Gumstix computer with our own microcontroller for low power tasks. GPRS is used to connect to the internet and send files to Southampton directly.
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The base station with its (new stronger!) antenna/power pyramid. The wired probe is towards the bottom of the picture.
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The holes were full of water so it was easy to deploy probes by dropping them in. This was an emotional moment for Jeff after nurturing them for so long.