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	Halley Research Station - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Halley Research Station, located at 75Â°35â² S 26Â°34â² W, on the Brunt Ice Shelf floating on the Weddell Sea in Antarctica is a British research facility dedicated to the study of the earth's atmosphere.
		Halley was founded in 1956, for the Intenational Geophysical Year of 1957-58, by an expedition from the Royal Society.
		Measurements from Halley led to the discovery of the ozone hole in 1985.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Halley_Research_Station

	Halley-Station - Wikipedia
		Die Bucht, in der die Station errichtet werden sollte, wurde, nach dem Astronomen Edmond Halley, Halley-Bucht genannt.
		Halley V hat Stahlplattformen, die jÃ¤hrlich angehoben werden um sie Ã¼ber dem Schnee zu halten und auf denen die HauptgebÃ¤ude errichtet sind.
		Halley wurde 1956 fÃ¼r das Internationale Geophysikalische Jahr 1957-58 durch eine Expedition der Royal Society gegrÃ¼ndet.
	de.wikipedia.org /wiki/Halley-Station

	Halley
		Halley V is the fifth station to be built on the Brunt Ice Shelf.
		Halley I to Halley IV were built directly on the snow and were each abandoned within ten years, having been crushed by the overlying ice.
		The relief of Halley is a major undertaking with supplies being landed twice a year by ship onto the ice shelf and then towed on sledges by Sno-cats to Halley, some 12 km distant from the ice edge.
	www.bas.ac.uk /Living_and_Working/Stations/Halley/index.php

	Civil Engineering Magazine - December 2000
		After seven years of expensive and problematic station maintenance, the BAS is seriously researching the possibility of using on-grade, nonjackable, sled-based, relocatable buildings to serve as Halley V's eventual replacement.
		Because of the large size of the station (6,040 m2 being roughly five times the floor area of Halley V), the duration of the jacking process and the size of the crew which would be needed to do the work were important concerns.
		Four elevated research stations have been constructed in Antarctica since 1969 both to improve the quality of life for station personnel and to overcome the disruption and resulting expense when they become buried and must be abandoned.
	www.pubs.asce.org /ceonline/1200feat2.html

	Halley
		The research station that I lived in was actually Halley V (Halley five).
		Halleys I and II were built on the surface of the snow but the snow accumulation meant that they were buried and crushed.
		Halley V has a 20 year "shelf life" limited only by the fact that the Brunt Ice Shelf is floating out to sea and breaking up.
	www.alexantarctica.net /halley/halley.htm

	75 Degrees South
		With the station population increasing from 16 to nearly 80 the heaters struggle to melt the snow quickly enough for the demand.
		Anyway, one of the many traditions at Halley is for the flag that flies above base in the summer to be lowered from the flagpole by the oldest member of the wintering team (Jeff again this year).
		When the current station was built in 1990 the melt tank was on the surface, but everything here is quickly buried by snow accumulation.
	simonc.f2o.org /south

	Z: Halley Station
		The original station, Halley I, was established by the Royal Society on 6 Jan 1956 for the International Geophysical Year (IGY)
		It was positioned to allow the triangulation of ionospheric measurements to be taken in conjunction with Halley Station and the Argentine General Belgrano Station.
		Halley I and Halley II were both occupied during the 1967 winter, Halley II being known as The Village and Grillage Village.
	www.antarctica.ac.uk /About_Antarctica/Heritage/Stations/halley.html

	WorldChanging: Another World Is Here: At Home on the Ice, and Beyond
		The conditions at the Brunt Ice Shelf, the location of the Halley research station, are extreme, even for Antarctica.
		Halley stations 1-4 were crushed by moving ice; Halley 5 (PDF) survives still, but is reaching the end of its usable life, and is expected to float away on broken ice by 2010.
		The final station design will operate with a minimal environmental footprint and minimal fossil fuel consumption, and be designed for simple, easy operation and maintenance allowing staff resources to be optimised for science rather than survival.
	www.worldchanging.com /archives/001890.html

	Science Museum Measuring our changing climate: signs of change Braving it in Antarctica
		Halley is the UK's most isolated research station, lying on the Brunt ice shelf.
		Scientists at the Halley Research Station in Antarctica are braving the conditions to carry out weather measurements using - among other things - a giant balloon.
		The Halley Research Station in the Antarctic is the UK's most isolated lab
	www.sciencemuseum.org.uk /antenna/climatechange/Cip2/222.asp

	Solar sail - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Suggestion of a solar sail with roller reefing, hybrid propulsion and a central docking and payload station.
		Likewise a solar sail-equipped spacecraft could also remain on station nearly above the polar terminator of a planet such as the Earth by tilting the sail at the appropriate angle needed to just counteract the planet's gravity.
		In the 1970s JPL did extensive studies of rotating blade and rotating ring sails for a mission to rendezvous with Halley's Comet.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Solar_sail

	Halley Research Station - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Halley Research Station, located at 75°35′S 26°34′W, on the Brunt Ice Shelf floating on the Weddell Sea in Antarctica is a British research facility dedicated to the study of the earth's atmosphere.
		Measurements from Halley led to the discovery of the ozone hole in 1985.
		Halley was founded in 1956, for the International Geophysical Year of 1957-58, by an expedition from the Royal Society.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Halley_Research_Station (808 words)

	WorldChanging: Another World Is Here: Designs for research station in Antarctic
		Six concept designs for the British Antarctic Survey's new Halley VI research station are now exhibited at the Royal Institute of British Architects in London till January 8, 2005.
		There is a growing risk that ice on which the UK’s Halley Research Station now sits could break off in the near future.
		A new station is therefore needed to allow research on global change to continue at the site where the ozone hole was discovered.
	www.worldchanging.com /archives/001601.html (808 words)

	Microbiology in the Antarctic
		One of the first studies was carried out at Halley Research Station using polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (PAGE) and Western blotting to conduct a population genetic study of Staphylococcus capitis.
		This study used highly sensitive molecular methods to detect bacteria of human origin in the area surrounding Halley research station.
		Pioneer work on the systematics, of coagulase-negative staphylococci isolated at Faraday Research Station showed that the analysis of ribosomal RNA restriction patterns was a particularly useful technique for speciation.
	www.abdn.ac.uk /~mmb058/kjf/basres1.htm (808 words)

	Past boundary layer activities
		During the Antarctic winter of 1986, BAS ran a comprehensive programme of boundary layer and turbulence measurements at Halley research station.
		Halley is situated on an extensive flat ice shelf and the strong surface inversions that form in winter provide an ideal environment for studying the stably-stratified boundary layer.
		During 1992 and 1993, two automatic weather stations equipped for surface mass and energy balanc emeasurements were operated on the Uranus Glacier, Alexander Island, as part of a European Community funded project to study surface mass balance in the Antarctic Peninsula.
	www.nbs.ac.uk /icd/boundary_layer/past.html (808 words)

	Antarctic stationsCold comfort : Nature
		Several stations already use such systems, including Britain's Halley V Research Station, and they look set to be a standard feature in the polar architecture of the future.
		The Halley base faces an even tougher challenge than Concordia and the US South Pole Station: it sits on a coastal shelf ice that is moving at 100 times the speed of inland glaciers.
		Neumayer is just one of about 100 permanent research stations that have been built in Antarctica since 1904, when the Scottish explorer William Speirs Bruce built a year-round meteorological observatory on the South Orkney Islands, at 60° south.
	www.nature.com /nature/journal/v431/n7010/full/431734a.html (808 words)

	The most difficult relief of Halley station in 45 years
		The most difficult relief of Halley station in 45 years involved aircraft flying hundreds of miles to ferry cargo to the station.
		Persistently difficult sea ice conditions in the vicinity of Halley station prevented closer access by ship in either December or February.
		The most difficult relief of Halley station in 45 years
	www.antarctica.ac.uk /BAS_Science/Highlights/2001/halley_relief.html (808 words)

	Halley's Chef - Richard Turner
		Recently, the station ran low on certain items so Richard went on a hunting expedition to the summer building and food containers, where extra food is stored.
		Food is an important source of morale and Richard is probably the only member of the station whose performance is judged consistently, twice a day.
		Richard is currently in his first of two winters at Halley.
	www.bas.ac.uk /Diaries/Halley/2000/richardturner.html (808 words)

	On the South Pole, they slap on suncream as they watch the ozone hole
		The Halley station, which specialises in atmospheric sciences but also covers geology and glaciological surveys, is famous for uncovering the first substantive evidence of the hole in the ozone layer in the region.
		Even then, coffee only arrives at the Halley station twice a year, brought by a ship that moors up on the edge of the ice shelf, seven miles away by sledge.
		Given its extraordinary isolation of the station and its extreme environment, there are, not surprisingly, psychological risks.
	www.millennium-debate.org /ind14novem3.htm (808 words)

	RRS Bransfield
		Her duties, following annual discharge of cargo at Halley, are to supply and transport cargo and personnel, insert coastal depots and support coastal survey and geological research parties principally in the region of the Antarctic Peninsula.
		Halley Station, as it is now called, has been operational since the International Geophysical Year 1957-58.
		British Antarctic Survey's RRS Bransfield off-loading stores in January 1973 on to the shelf ice for transport to Halley Bay, their base a few miles away built near the edge of the Brunt Ice Shelf on the eastern coast of the Weddell Sea, Antarctica.
	www.mikeskidmore.supanet.com /pr-bransfield.htm (808 words)

	British Antarctic Survey
		At the Halley Research Station the extreme environment poses great technical problems to construction engineers, where blizzards and snow drifts eventually bury everything and where the site has gone through a number of re-positioning exercises since 1957.
		The cards are used to monitor tension in the bracing wires of the station which is built on steel legs buried deep in the ice.
		The tension in the bracing wires needed to be constantly monitored to keep within safety limits and to ensure that the tension is spread evenly to avoid distortion.
	www.mantracourt.com /appantarctic.htm (808 words)

	BBC - Northamptonshire Football - On top of the world (or is it the bottom?)
		The Halley Research Station floats on an ice shelf on the mainland of Antarctica (Latitude 75°35' S, Longitude 26°34' W, to be precise).
		• The station is named after the astronomer Edmond Halley
		As you'd expect, there's no TV at Halley and BBC Radio Northampton's signal doesn't stretch that far, so to follow the match Steve sat in the communications room using a satellite phone at £1.50 a minute to phone his dad's mobile for regular updates.
	www.bbc.co.uk /northamptonshire/sport/football/cobblers/fa_cup/south_pole.shtml (808 words)

	The Ozone Hole-Ozone Hole History
		Scientists of the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) at Halley Research Station in Antarctica have recorded their lowest ever value of ozone, showing that over two-thirds of the protective ozone shield has been destroyed.
		Preliminary ozone values from the British Antarctic Survey Halley station (76 south, 26 west on the Brunt ice shelf) show mean ozone values dropping from around 210 DU in early September to around 110 DU in early October.
		Routine ozone measurements from Halley station do not start until towards the end of August because the sun is not high enough to permit measurements.
	www.theozonehole.com /ozoneholehistory.htm (808 words)

	PACSAT-Station in der Antarktis
		Andre, VP8MAP, überwintert zur Zeit in der Antarktis, hat dort eine 9k6-Satelliten-Station aufgebaut und berichtet über das Leben und seine Funkaktivitäten in dem englischen Lager "Halley Base".
		Halley 5 ist anders als frühere Versionen über der Schneeoberfläche gebaut.
		Vielleicht habt ihr bisher noch nichts von Halley gewußt, aber bestimmt schon von seinem größten und traurigen Ruhm, nämlich der Entdeckung des Antarktischen Ozonloches.
	www.amsat-dl.org /journal/artikel/adlj-hal.htm (808 words)

	Halley Elementary School in Fairfax Station, Virginia/VA - School Tree
		Halley Elementary School in Fairfax Station, Virginia/VA - School Tree
		Halley Elementary School was operational at the time of the last report and is currently operational.
		Halley Elementary School is classified as a "Primary School".
	schooltree.org /510126001093.html (808 words)

	The Antarctic experimental programme
		BAS will use a combination of sophisticated multi-instrument measurements from a single site (Halley Station: 75 36'S, 26 46'W, L=4.3), and less sophisticated observations from a network of locations, using automated geophysical observatories (AGOs) (see Figure 1, and Table i).
		The instruments at Halley and on the AGOs can provide important data across a wide range of latitudes from the main ionospheric trough, through the auroral oval and into the polar cap at all local times under both quiet and disturbed geomagnetic conditions (Figure 2).
		The primary aim of the BAS ground-based programme is to image the behaviour of the inner boundary of geospace - the polar ionosphere - in an attempt to quantify the flow and dissipation of geospace energy as a function of space and time.
	wdcc1.bnsc.rl.ac.uk /gbdc/bluebook/basgbdc/node4.html (808 words)

	Wired New York Forum - Antarctic Ice Station
		The existing Halley station is the fifth to be built on the Brunt shelf since 1956 to study changing weather patterns.
		The new station will replace BAS' existing Halley facility on the Brunt ice shelf which is expected to follow much of the ice-bound continent's sea ice and break away as the world's climate warms.
		A BAS spokeswoman said the new station, scheduled to be operational by November 2008 in time for the 2008/2009 southern hemisphere summer when the staff quadruples to 60, would probably be built on the remains of the Brunt shelf.
	www.wirednewyork.com /forum/archive/index.php?t-5077.html (808 words)

	Halley Station - Antarctica Research Stations- Antarctic Connection
		Halley Station - Antarctica Research Stations- Antarctic Connection
		History: Halley base was established in 1956 as part of the UK's contribution to the International Geophysical Year.
		This flows off the Antarctic continent into the Weddell Sea at a rate of 2m per day, breaking off at the edge to form giant icebergs.
	www.antarcticconnection.com /antarctic/stations/halley.shtml (808 words)

	Google Search: halley_research_station
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	halley_research_station.networklive.org (808 words)

	The Ozone Hole Tour : Part II. Recent Ozone Depletion
		Regular ozone measurement have been made from the Halley Bay Research Station for many years.
		Such measurements come from ground based instruments at the Antarctica research stations, from aircraft during scientific missions and from satellites.
		The graph to the right shows the measured total ozone above the Halley Bay station in Antarctica.
	www.atm.ch.cam.ac.uk /tour/part2.html (808 words)

	Falkland Islands Philatelic Bureau - British Antarctic Territory
		Halley is the most remote of the stations of the British Antarctic Survey and access to Halley has usually required great care by the ship's crew to avoid the worst of the ice conditions in the Weddell Sea.
		She was operated by BAS as the major supply vessel for the Antarctic stations until 1999, delivering not only food, materials and scientific equipment to the stations, but also providing a limited platform for scientific research.
		The resupply of Halley station was the most important task of the season for RRS Bransfield.
	www.falklands.gov.fk /pb/bat/ships.htm (808 words)

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