Antarctic Broadcasts: Broader Impacts Through Telepresence (ABBITT)

南极广播：通过远程呈现产生更广泛的影响（ABBITT）项目是一个试点项目，有可能大大改善与国家科学基金会资助的南极研究有关的教育活动。该项目将在一个尚未使用的地区（极南纬度）测试为船到海岸传输而开发的技术，并在劳伦斯M号R/V上测试在海上使用该技术进行更广泛的影响活动。古尔德（LMG）和来自美国帕尔默现场站，位于南极半岛。LMG有一个新的船上卫星天线，应该能够提供广播质量的服务，但它还没有经过测试。罗得岛大学海洋学研究生院的内部空间中心（ISC）是开发船对海岸远程呈现技术的领导者，这种通信技术通过将远程位置与世界其他地方连接起来的先进卫星和地面网络优化实时视频、音频和数据传输。ISC为美国研究船队的几艘船上的研究探险提供服务，以及几艘私人拥有的研究船。ISC设施包括一个设备齐全的广播演播室，可以制作专业质量的节目和现场互动广播。PI建议在LMG上和帕尔默站测试该设备。他们将测试该系统，并从船上制作现场互动广播，在测试阶段将其交付给史密森学会国家自然历史博物馆（NMNH）。将测试一种以前从未在南极使用过的新技术组合，包括一个移动的远程呈现单元（MTU）和LMG上的新船载天线。罗得岛大学的科学家们将为这艘船配置MTU，并将其安装在船上实验室。这一系统将与新的Fleet XPress卫星电信系统结合起来，应足以进行录像广播，并将制作的录像片段发送到岸上，以便在宣传方案期间插入。当天气和卫星足迹允许连接到美国时，将从船上和南极洲的帕尔默站进行广播。这些广播将在史密森尼博物馆的Q 'rius中心礼堂播出，该礼堂可容纳约100名博物馆游客。该奖项支持的新能力将扩大从南极和南大洋通信的选择，为研究和教育提供额外的能力。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The Antarctic Broadcasts: Broader Impacts Through Telepresence (ABBITT) project is a pilot project that has the potential to greatly improve education activities related to NSF-funded Antarctic research. The project will test technologies that have been developed for ship to shore transmissions in a region where they have not been used - extreme southern latitudes - and test the delivery of broader impact activities using this technology while at-sea onboard the R/V Lawrence M. Gould (LMG) and from the U.S. Palmer Field Station, located on the Antarctic peninsula. The LMG has a new ship's satellite antenna that should be capable of the broadcast quality service, but it has not been tested for this use. The Inner Space Center (ISC) at the University of Rhode Island's Graduate School of Oceanography is a leader in developing ship-to-shore telepresence technologies - communications technology that optimizes live video, audio, and data transmissions via advanced satellite and terrestrial networks that link remote locations to the rest of the world. The ISC serves research expeditions aboard several ships in the U.S. research fleet, as well as several privately owned research vessels. The ISC facility includes a fully equipped broadcast studio that allows for the production of professional quality programming and live, interactive broadcasts. The PIs propose to test this equipment aboard the LMG and at Palmer Station. They will test the system and produce live interactive broadcasts from the ship that will be delivered to the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History (NMNH) during the testing phase.A new combination of technologies that have not been previously used in the Antarctic will be tested, including a Mobile Telepresence Unit (MTU) and a new shipboard antenna on the LMG. University of Rhode Island scientists will configure the MTU for the ship and install it in the shipboard laboratory. This system will integrate with the new Fleet XPress satellite telecommunication system and should be sufficient for video broadcasting and sending produced video clips ashore to be cut in during the outreach programs. Broadcasts will be conducted from the ship and from Palmer Station in Antarctica when weather and satellite footprints allow connection to the U.S. These broadcasts will be aired in the Q'rius Center auditorium at the Smithsonian NMNH, which has seating for about 100 museum visitors. The new capability supported by this award will expand options for communications from the Antarctic and Southern Ocean, providing additional capacity for both research and education.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.