This is an extremely annoying read. I was hoping for a rich dataset. The USCG and Government datasets are extremely sparse - especially in polar regions. Here you have the US Healy traversing the arctic and the only data collection this team sought to obtain from this voyage was a FLIR images and and broken up video clips (day rates for such vessels can easily run in the $50K/day US). What about filling the vast gaps in subsurface ocean and ice data? What about RF signal reception? Biological data?
"We had 100-foot cables made for this project just in case of this type of scenario, which was a good thing because we only had a few inches to spare," Emily says.
I'm sorry, but that's just 100% poor planning (read 100% "avoidable" by simply mapping the cable route ship arrangement drawings a priori) that almost jeopardized the entire data gathering effort. It's a single surveillance camera and data storage, mounted on a bulkhead. Not rocket science.
I would honestly be embarrassed to be interviewed for this article if this were me.
Apologies for venting, but this is really frustrating.
Does the magnetic polar shift affect the jetstream? If the jetstream is affected, would the regional temperatures be affected? Would the weakening magnetosphere affect jetstreams & temperature? If so, how?
This is an extremely annoying read. I was hoping for a rich dataset. The USCG and Government datasets are extremely sparse - especially in polar regions. Here you have the US Healy traversing the arctic and the only data collection this team sought to obtain from this voyage was a FLIR images and and broken up video clips (day rates for such vessels can easily run in the $50K/day US). What about filling the vast gaps in subsurface ocean and ice data? What about RF signal reception? Biological data?
"We had 100-foot cables made for this project just in case of this type of scenario, which was a good thing because we only had a few inches to spare," Emily says.
I'm sorry, but that's just 100% poor planning (read 100% "avoidable" by simply mapping the cable route ship arrangement drawings a priori) that almost jeopardized the entire data gathering effort. It's a single surveillance camera and data storage, mounted on a bulkhead. Not rocket science.
I would honestly be embarrassed to be interviewed for this article if this were me.
Apologies for venting, but this is really frustrating.