Dumont d’Urville Concordia Station Dome C Mario Zucchelli Station Baia Terra Nova McMurdo Mid Point D-85 D-10 C-3 Concordia Station

A Typical Calendar for Expeditions 30/11-03/1231/12-03/0129/01-31/01

Personnel transportation Personnel is transferred to Dome C by Twin Otter flights. Only special materials and equipments which couldn’t stand low temperature or vibrations are allowed to be send to CHCH by commercial ship (there are 3 scheduled ships departing from August to October) and in connection with Hercules flights or Italica Ship to be delivered to MZS and, then, to DomeC by Twin Otter. Each special delivery should be authorized by each polar Institute, enquiring with weight and boxes dimensions.

From DDU, situated on an island (in Figure), materials are transferred to CAP Prud' Homme Station (CPH), site on the Antarctic continent from which the French Traverse (RAID) departs. Because of site shape, the Astrolabe ship can’t arrive directly to CPH, so that materials have to be transferred from DDU to CPH: - during the summer by helicopter; - in January there is the possibility to use a barge, but such opportunity remains function of the marine ice and meteorological condition; - during the winter it is hauled on ice. The accessibility to DDU is function of weather conditions too. Each RAID is made up of a certain number of tractors and trailers, to transport packed into container or unpacked materials (RAID composition type in Figure). MATERIAL TRANSPORTATION DDU CPH 30/11-03/12 31/12-03/01 29/01-31/01

Last Summer Campaign Personnel during Summer

Last Summer Campaign

Clean Area Concordia Summer camp Obs. Geomagnetism Vaisala weather station Seismology Astroconcordia Dome C 1.050m Glaciology Shelter HF

The Camp Epica lab. 33 m (83mq) disassembled

Summer Camp Power Generator: sq buildings 57 beds max Garage tent Storages tents Main building Dormitory tents Drilling tent Labs

Concordia Station

workshops Storages sport room Kitchen dining room Medical Bedrooms Laboratories radio room Main Buildings Noisy Calm Concordia Station

Inside the buildings workshops Storages sports room Kitchen dining room Medical Bedrooms Laboratories radio room Noisy Calm

Atmospheric chemmistry lab Glaciology labSismology lab Astronomy lab

MedicalBedrooms

Leaving room

Kitchen Video room Sport room Workshop

Power station The main parameter for the power station was efficiency to reduce the fuel consumption, aimed both to minimize environmental impact and costs. It is made up of 3 Diesel generators adapted to the particular conditions of the air in DomeC. Each Generator can deliver 125 kW at full load and the system is a co generator one that lets the recovering of waste heat both from exhaust air and from the cooling jacket water (for a total amount of around 80%). For safety reasons, there is also an emergency diesel generator inside the noisy building. Power supplyed in kW The Power station during the last summer campaign Fuel consumption

During the last summer campaign the total ammount of power supplyed outside the station for research activities was 37 kW; it was delivered by sylicon cables on wooden pylons. ActivitySect.

To collect grey and black water the station is equipped with a vacuum system that lets a reduction of 80% of water consumption referred to traditional ones. Wastewaters are later treated by a reverse osmosis system developed in cooperation with ESA (EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY). Waste water treatment

Water production and water recycling

Glaciology Geomagnetism Weather station Refuelling Geomagnetism Snow drawing Gray water mud Astronomic site 32 m Tower Atmospheric chemistry: Research activities Seismology

Glaciology Geomagnetism Weather station Refuelling Geomagnetism Snow drawing Gray water mud Astronomic site 32 m Tower Clean air area Atmospheric chemistry: The idea for the future Seismology Astronomic sector

Astronomic site

COCHISE 3,5 m 4,2 m 20 m

Some laboratoryes were disassembled in order to use the modular panels to built a structure to support the research acrtivities.

Telecommunications -2 Inmarsat Standard B -2 Inmarsat Fleet77 -4 fax -2 Iridium -2 Iridium (mobile) -2 Standard C -1 SAE IPX 300 Full (with 6 wifi access point) -1 HF Rode&Swartz, 150 W -2 marine VHF; -2 avio VHF -1 HF Motorola Micom2,125 W; -1 VHF marine Motorola MC900 Outside the Station: 1 Inmarsat Standard B 1 Inmarsat Fleet

Inside the Station 1 Inmarsat Standard B 1 Inmarsat Fleet

Radio Room Inside the station the local area network is made up by a pysical part (the plugs in each room connected to a rack for each level) and an Active part (a switch at each level connected by fibber optic to the Main Switch, that is the center of the system, settled in the radio room). The connection runs at 1 Gbps Fibber optic cable Switch Ethernet -Enterasys 24 plugs Rj45 10/100 Mb/s Center switch

Emergency Radio room - 1 inmarsat Standard C - 1 Iridium - 1 WiFi connection

Glaciology Geomagnetism Weather station Refuelling Geomagnetism Snow drawing Gray water mud Astronomic site 32 m Tower Atmospheric chemistry: Data connection Seismology fibber optic; 1WiFi (bakeup connection) 54Mbit/sec 1WiFi 54Mbit/sec 1 Cable connection; 1 Radiomodem 1WiFi 54Mbit/sec - fibber Optic

ASTROCONCORDIA:

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