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 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. The Electron Microscope Unit at Kingston Headquarters trains researchers in how to collect samples in the antarctic, and then processes these to produce amazing pictures of Antarctic microscopic life forms. Laboratory Services maintains the laboratories and their equipment at the Antarctic stations, on ships, and at headquarters in Tasmania.