MIT Lincoln Lab contributes to Arctic research annually
For a few years now, individuals from the MIT Lincoln Lab have been going south every summer.
Most recently, a team returned from a trip this past spring, reporting on their efforts to continue various kinds of research, some aimed at the condition of Arctic ice shelf areas, including projects using low-cost sensors to see what is happening in this hard-to-access part of the world.
I liked how Ariana Gaines wrote about this on the Lincoln Lab’s web site just a couple of weeks ago:
“Beneath the Arctic Ocean is an orchestra featuring natural and human composers, from cracking sea ice and whistling beluga whales to humming shipping-vessel engines,” Gaines wrote. “Researchers from MIT Lincoln Laboratory saw some of this cacophony when analyzing data from commercial off-the-shelf sensors that they integrated and deployed in 2024 during the U.S. Navy’s Operation Ice Camp (OIC). This past March, during OIC 2026, the researchers returned to the Arctic with a higher-fidelity version of one of the sensors, a geophone, which detects vibrations in the sea ice.”
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