History

Deployment stories, ship returns, presentations, and project history.

Deployment stories and project history.


Korea Polar Research Institute 2024

Eleven-buoy deployment with the Korea Polar Research Institute, March 2024. Project id kopri.

TWK5 Canada 2019–2021

Two-buoy Canadian deployment running 2019 through 2021. Project id twk5.

TAS 2019 to 2022

Fourteen-buoy Tasmanian deployment running 2019 through 2022. Project id tas2019.

Melbourne University 2018

Single-buoy deployment with the University of Melbourne, November 2018. Project id unimelb2018.

Japan 2018

Three-buoy deployment in Japan, March 2018. Project id japan2018.

NIWA 2017

Fourteen-buoy deployment with NIWA (New Zealand), April 2017. The Intel Edison all-in-one Linux generation — no AVR companion. Project id niwa2017.

NYU UAE 2017

Two-buoy deployment with NYU UAE, April 2017. Project id nyuuae.

Japan 2016

Two-buoy deployment in Japan, September 2016. Project id japan2016.

NIWA Test 2016

Internal NIWA test deployment, project id niwatest2016. Zero buoys recorded — placeholder / system test entry.

Internal Test Deployment

Internal test deployment, project id test2016. Two buoys, not a real-world project.

Scott Base Testing 2014

NIWA-led testing of the WII2 sensor board at Scott Base, Antarctica — November 2014. Captured Kistler accelerometer, MPU9150 IMU, GPS, and Iridium telemetry at 2–8 Hz.

NIWA 2012 — Original Deployment (Nature 2014)

The seminal 2012 NIWA deployment — eight WII buoys, the first digital sea-ice wave measurements ever collected. The data became the 2014 Nature paper on storm-induced sea-ice breakup.