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2 Alaska: An Exciting Natural Laboratory Study where science happens Naturally Inspiring Tsunamis Atmospheric Science Space Physics Remote Sensing Ice & Snow Permafrost Tectonics & Sedimentation Proposed: ACUASI-RDE Volcanoes 2 per year Earthquakes 25,000 Glaciers 100,000

3 Cleveland Iliamna

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5 2011 - 2012 Impacts Nome Fuel Crisis: GI Sea Ice Researchers Support USCG with Sea Ice Samples & UAV Remote Sensing GI Glacier Researchers Provide Actionable Information to Alaska Command on Speed of Glacier to Initiate Recovery of C-124 Andy Mahoney Greg Walker Dave Podrasky Martin Truffer

6 Alaska Space Grant Program Additional Sponsors: Alaska Aerospace Corporation, NOAA Fox Facility & Arctic Armature Radio Club 4” x 4” x 4” The Alaska Research Cubesat (ARC) satellite: 1. Imager (Changing snow/ice coverage in arctic) 2. Communications (High bandwidth image transfer) 3. Attitude Control & Determination Sys. (ACDS) (thermal/vibration from ignition to orbit) 4. Electronic Power System (EPS) 5. Command and Data Handling (CDH) 6. Launch Environment Data Logger (LEDL) Dr. Denise Thorsen

7 Alaska Satellite Facility – Strategic Location for Polar Orbit Satellite Contact Viewing Horizon Polar Orbits 11/14 Orbits/day

8 Alaska Satellite Facility Dr. Nettie Labelle-Hamer, Scott Arko; Dr. Don Atwood ALOS (Advanced Land Observing Satellite) AIM (Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere) COSMIC (Constellation Observing System for Meteorology, Ionosphere & Climate) ERS-1 & ERS-2 [decommissioned] (European Remote-Sensing Satellite-1/Satellite-2) FAST JERS-1 (Japanese Earth Resources Satellite-1) NPP (NPOESS Preparatory Project) QuikSCAT RADARSAT-1 SAC-D SAMPEX (Solar Anomalous and Magnetospheric Particle Explorer) SCISAT-1

9 ASF Receiving Ground Station 10-meter antenna operating since 1991 X- band and S-band Receive only 11-meter antenna operating since 1995 X- band and S-band Receive and command 11m Antenna 10m Antenna Operated by the Geophysical Institute at the University of Alaska Fairbanks since 1991

10 ASF Imagery Seeing through clouds Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Cleveland Volcano Akutan

11 Ash Composites for Kasatochi Volcano

12 Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSar) ASF Imagery – AS_ts1862

13 SAR Glacier Studies InSAR used to delineate glaciers

14 CSTARS ASF

15 Steve Estes 5/16/2012 Thank you, Questions?

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