OSCSI - The Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center
Monday, June 22, 2015No author information provided.
Let me start off by first saying that -30°F is very cold. But more about that in a moment…
Today, we continued with our networking project. We have so many wires on the table, it isn’t funny anymore. If someone brought in a pair of scissors and cut even one wire, we would be spending the next ten minutes figuring out which one was cut.
After some minor technical difficulties in our configurations, we visited the Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center to learn about the types of projects they are working on. I did not know that this research facility is one of the largest users of the Ohio Supercomputer Center. The Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center has been developing a model for the weather patterns in the polar regions for pilots to use to know their landing conditions. An example of one of their live models is accessible here.
After an introduction to the models, we saw their massive collection of rocks from the polar regions and entered the room where they store ice core samples. The picture below of the thermometer is the temperature in the room where they cut the samples, not the temperature of the storage room. The storage room was about -30°F when we entered. And I thought waiting at the bus stop before school was cold during the winter…
