North Iceland CGPS installation almost completed!

The installation of 10 new CGPS stations in North Iceland is almost completed. Nine stations are already up and running and the work on the 10th installation is well under way. We plan to finish the fieldwork tomorrow and keep one instrument in Reykjavik for the first few weeks to test data downlink methods for the sites, but all instruments are currently storing data locally and at 15 secs.

Above is a picture of Janik Deutscher, Judicael Decriem, og Thorgils Ingvarsson after the installation on Grimsey Island. I hope to post more pictures soon.

-Sjonni

Ph.D. candidate selected in the North Iceland project

A Ph.D. candidate has been selected for the North Iceland project from a number of applications. His name is Janik Deutscher, from Austria, and he has a background in Physical Geography. Janik has already started working on the project by participating in the North Iceland CGPS installation.

-Sjonni

First new station in Northern Iceland collecting data

Today at noon the first of the 10 new stations in Norht Iceland started collecting data. The station is at the very outskirts of Iceland, in Grímsey and bears the name GMEY. The receiver at GMEY is from Septentrio in Belgium and it is currently collecting 15s data to its internal memory.
For over a week now installations have been ongoing in North Iceland. We have installed 7 out of 10 monuments and hope to have intruments running at all of these by the end of next week.

-HG

HVEL and BUDH

Hveravellir (HVEL) is now running on power from the meteorlogical station (thanks to Sighvatur).
Still need to make a centerpoint and measure antenna height but data are rolling into the receiver.
http://geo.arizona.edu/~sigrun/iceland/hvel.html

Also Budarhals (BUDH) is now running on solar and wind power. http://geo.arizona.edu/~sigrun/iceland/budh.html

Sigrun