ZIAA ARCHIVE RECORDFIELD STATIONS
SITE-02siteVERIFIED RECORD
Svalbard Arctic Hydrophone Array
STATION-ICE-EPSILONSTATUS: ACTIVE_CONTINUOUS
Svalbard Arctic Hydrophone Array
Location: Longyearbyen, Svalbard, Norway · Coordinates: 78°13'12.0"N 15°38'42.0"E
CHANNELS
16 Transducers
FREQUENCY RANGE
0.1 Hz – 96.0 kHz
ESTABLISHED
2022
FOOTPRINT
300m sub-surface glacial borehole string
FACILITY INFRASTRUCTURE OVERVIEW
An Arctic hydrophone and seismometer string lowered into sub-glacial wells and fjord waters to track acoustic calving, sea-ice fracture dynamics, and marine mammal vocalizations.
PUBLIC ACCESS & LISTENING PROTOCOL
Open scientific data stream accessible via university research network.
DEPLOYED INSTRUMENTATION CLUSTER
- Cryogenic Benthic Hydrophones
- Piezo Borehole Seismometers
- Fiber-Optic Data Line
- Thermal De-Icing Wellhead