Selasa, 28 April 2015
newsweek
Heres from the federal commission charged with overseeing and trying to steer arctic research.
Some researchers worry that their ability to gather real-time data is in jeopardy. Despite the publicity around the IPY, scientists still have limited access to the technology they need. The U.S. Arctic Research Commission recently published a wish list of monitoring equipment, topped by icebreakers (America rents some ships from Russia and Sweden), a better sensor network of buoys and river gauges, and satellites. Alas, by the next polar satellite launch, in 2015, much of the current U.S. equipment will be verging on breakdown. A new Canadian satellite called radarsat-2 will also be key. The United States paid to launch radarsat-1 and has had a "free ticket" for its data over the last 12 years, says Mead Treadwell, the ARCs chairman. But it didnt help with the launch of radarsat-2, and Treadwell says hes "not aware that any federal agency has a budget to buy" its data after 2009, says Treadwell.Heres the full story.
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