Dr. Norbert E. Yankielun
U.S. Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory,
Hanover, New Hampshire.
Monday, April 12, 2004 at 4:30 p.m. (Refreshments at 4:00 p.m.)
ECE Center, Second Floor, Room 202, New Jersey Institute of Technology

 

ABSTRACT

For over 100 years explorers have been performing exploratory and scientific traverses across the harsh and remote Antarctic landscape. This presentation recounts my experiences two recent traverses: International Trans-Antarctic Expedition (ITASE) and the South Pole Traverse (SPT). ITASE was a purely scientific traverse focused obtaining climate change data from the western Antarctic plateau. SPT was a logistics-based exploratory traverse that is pioneering a surface route from the U.S. coastal Antarctic base at McMurdo for the resupply of the U.S. Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station. On both of these traverses ground penetrating radar (GPR) was used for scientific and safety purposes. The experience of working in Antarctica and using GPR will be discussed.

BIOGRAPHY

Dr. Norbert E. Yankielun, P.E. is a geophysical radar and electronics engineer in the Engineering Resources Division of the U.S. Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory in Hanover, New Hampshire. His current research efforts are involved with the development and application of geophysical instrumentation and associated signal processing, in particular: pulse and FM-CW radar systems in wavelength bands from millimeter-wave through HF for geophysical subsurface profiling and infrastructure surveying. He has taken his radar systems on numerous scientific expeditions and traverses in the Alaskan Arctic and Antarctica. Dr. Yankielun is also involved with the application of time domain reflectometry and frequency domain reflectometry for geophysical applications, and especially focused on riverene sedimentation and scour, and the accretion of frazil ice. Recently Dr. Yankielun has been involved with research leading to patent pending electronic- and fiber optic-based instrumentation for the assessment and visualization of washover of low-profile towed bodies for the Navy. Dr. Yankielun has developed over 21 patents for geophysical radar and instrumentation systems, and has written over 20 journal articles and reports based on his research efforts. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE and a member of AGU, a licensed professional engineer, holds a BSEE from Newark College of Engineering, a MSEE from New Jersey Institute of Technology and received his Doctor of Engineering degree from Dartmouth College. Formerly, he was Associate Professor and Associate Chair of the Department of Electrical Engineering for Engineering Technology at NJIT. A weblog of Dr. Yankielun’s recent Antarctic journey can be found at: http://www.montshire.net/antarctica_weblog/index.html

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