Request for Information: Science Research Goals/Objectives Affecting Proposed U.S. Antarctic Science Monitoring and Reliable Telecommunications Cable and Route Design
Summary

The National Science Foundation NSF requests input from the full range of institutions and organizations across all relevant sectorsindustry academia non-profits government venture capital and othersto inform the development of a proposed subsea telecommunications cable capable of being equipped with sensors to support science research that would connect the largest U.S. research facility in Antarctica McMurdo Station with either the South Island of New Zealand or Southeast Australia. The proposed cable is expected to host the point science sensor concept promoted by the UN IOCUNESCO Joint Task Force on Science Monitoring And Reliable Telecommunications