Science technical support

Science comes up with important questions to be answered. The Science Technical Support Section develops the technology and scientific facilities needed to answer them. The equipment and facilities we provide may have to work for 10 years continuously out on the high antarctic plateau in temperatures down to -80 degrees Celsius, or at 6000m below the stormy southern ocean.

• Electronics Laboratory - designs, manufactures, modifies and repairs electronic instrumentation systems for use in the antarctic. Some of the weather stations we have made are still sending back information after over 10 years unattended on the Antarctic Plateau.
• Instrument Workshop - designs, manufactures, modifies and repairs mechanical instruments for everything from moving mirrors in a LIDAR system with accuracies of billionths of a meter, through to making drills to sample ice a kilometer from the surface of the antarctic ice sheet.
• Laboratory Services - maintains the laboratories and their equipment at the Antarctic stations, on ships, and at headquarters in Tasmania.
• Marine Science Support - group provides technical support for Marine Science. This includes everything from running a fleet of small boats, to publishing data collected at sea on the web.

For more information, use the contact form: Marine Science