# Presentation: 796587

## Erick Chiang
Head, Polar Research Support Section

**Polar Research Support**

- Erick Chiang
- Head, Polar Research Support Section

## NSB Guiding Directive

- 1987 NSB Report – The National Science Foundation in Polar Regions
- “***Scientific needs and opportunities should determine the research conducted in both polar regions, with logistics deriving from and supporting the research rather that dictating it.”***

## Who are we?

- Erick Chiang – Section Head
- Brian Stone – Deputy Section Head
- Science Support Manager – (currently vacant)
- Arthur Brown – NZ Representative
- George Blaisdell – Operations Manager
- David Bresnahan – Logistics Manager
- Patrick Haggerty – Construction Manager
- Jerry Marty – South Pole Construction Manager
- Michael Schueremann – Aviation Projects Manager

- Alexander Sutherland – Marine Projects Manager
- Col. Paul Sheppard – DoD Liason
- Lt. Col. Ian Biggins – ANG Liason
- Sandra Singer – Facilities Engineer
- Patrick Smith – IT Technology Manager
- Kevin Culin – South Pole IT Engineer
- Ben Bergerson – IT Security
- Bill Michael – IT Support
- Carlena Fooks – Section Support

## What do we do?

**Program Oversight of:**
** *****Science Support*****:** Get you there and back and insure you can get your science done.
-  ***Operations and maintenance of station infrastructure***:  Power; water; facilities; airfields; seaports; roadways – just like any small town
-  ***IT and Communications Infrastructure:***   We are the .com and telephone company in Antarctica.
-  ***Engineering and Construction Management:***  What we need we have designed and built.
-  ***Logistics and Resupply:*** 8 million gals of fuel and 15 M lbs of stuff
-  ***Budgets and Cost Control:*** $208M

## What Does it Cost? (FY 06 in millions of dollars)

| US Air Force Airlift (C-17) | $               5.00  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Environmental Operations |  |  $               6.00  |
| Engineering & Construction |  |  $             14.00  |
| Resupply Sealift |  |  $             21.00  |
| IT & Communications |  |  $             23.00  |
| Research Field Support (non-marine) |  |  $             24.00  |
| Research Vessels |  |  $             26.00  |
| Air National Guard LC-130 Support |  |  $             33.00  |
| Operations and Infrastructure |  |  $             56.80  |
| Total |  |  $           208.80  |

## Who Else Plays?

- Raytheon Polar Services Company
- Air National Guard
- 109th AW LC-130’s
- Department of Defense
- Pacific Command (PACOM)
- Overall command of military units
- Transportation Command (TRANSCOM)
- Military Sealift Command for resupply ships
- Strategic Airlift – C-17s
- Space and Naval Air Warfare Center
- U.S. Coast Guard

## Who Else Plays (con’t)?

- Cold Regions Research and Engineering Labs
- Naval Facilities Engineering Command
- Petroleum Helicopter LTD
- A 350’s; Bell 212 helicopter
- Kenn Borek Air
- Twin Otters; Basler 67

## Science Support

- Effectively plan for and execute science support requirements

## Maintain the Infrastructure

- Implement effective quality management systems to provide well maintained and operationally effective facilities

**Palmer Station**

**Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station**

**McMurdo Station**

## IT and Communications

**IT and Communications**

- To provide network systems that allow intra- and intercontinental communications  comparable to that found at typical business and higher education establishments in the continental United States

**Black Island Communication site**

**South Pole MARISAT antenna**

**Palmer Station INTELSAT antenna**

## Transportation and Logistics

**Transportation and Logistics**

- To effectively deliver people/cargo/science to, within, and from Antarctica