Carribean Field Sites

To support our NSF-funded study, Multi-Technique Study of Ionospheric Irregularities at Mid-Latitudes, we have installed wide-angle PICASSO imaging systems and a dual-frequency GPS receiver at two new sites in the southern Caribbean. One site, in conjunction with Prof. Jacob Opadeyi at the University of the West Indies, is installed in Trinidad (August 2008). The second site, hosted by Mr. Alan Gross, is installed on the island of Bonaire (March 2009). More information on the installation can be found here.

Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory

As part of our NSF-funded study, Coordinated Imaging and Scintillation Study of the Conjugate Nature of Equatorial Plasma Irregularities, we installed a narrow-field PICASSO imaging system and two GPS-L1 scintillation monitors at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory, near La Serena, Chile. The systems were initially installed in August, 2006 in the airglow facility run by Scientific Solutions, Inc,. More information on the installation can be found here.

File Server

In light of the amount of data that is a part of this research program, storage becomes an issue. Following guidelines found on the web, a customized terabyte server was put together for under $1500. The specs are:

The hard drives are in a RAID 50 configuration allowing for a total of 1.07 TB in storage. Currently, 782.09 GB of this space is being used, leaving 318.22 GB for future use.