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SUMMARY:Lost software\, Polar Research Ships\, Antarctica\, and Doom: Resc
 uing 30+ years of raw scientific vessel underway data - Claudette Lopez - 
 British Antarctic Survey
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CONTACT:Jack Atkinson
DESCRIPTION:The British Antarctic Survey (BAS) prepares all year to ensure
  successful Seasons of delivering polar science throughout Antarctic and A
 rctic regions. UK RRS (Royal Research Ship) Icebreakers are a key aspect o
 f seasonal work. These vessels are fully equipped scientific research plat
 forms solely devoted to support scientists throughout research periods kno
 wn as 'science cruises'\, where science meets extreme environments via unc
 harted waters. \n\nIcebreaker RRS James Clark Ross (JCR) (1991-2021) playe
 d an invaluable role in marine polar sciences\, having served over 200 cru
 ises! Although the JCR was a leader in UK polar scientific operations\, a 
 significant amount of her lifetime is positionally unaccounted for. In 202
 4\, the UK Polar Data Centre (BAS) launched the Vessels Positions Project 
 to identify and fill-in positional gaps in the JCR’s voyage record. Orig
 inally this project was dedicated to filling in summer periods where JCR d
 ata systems were completely off. Very quickly this project turned into an 
 emergency data rescue mission! Decades worth of underway data was missing\
 , misplaced\, lost. In this talk\, I'll share my work on restoring the JCR
 's historical underway data. I'll discuss my journey from cryptic data dis
 covery (and then some!) to data ingestion.\n\nUnderway data is the product
  of various scientific sensor messages transmitted into a data acquisition
 ing system\, the data is captured while the vessel is underway.
LOCATION:Room E\, West Hub
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