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Written by Wendy Pitlick
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Tuesday, 27 April 2010 |
LEAD Audiences from around the world can view a live Web cast of a video teleconference being conducted from the 4,850-foot level of the Sanford Lab Wednesday morning.
The teleconference will begin at 8 a.m. (MST) and audiences may view it at http://bit.ly/dvWyEI. The video will be a three-way teleconference between scientists and engineers at the Sanford Lab, broadcasting from 4,850 feet underground; Gov. Mike Rounds, who will speak about the project to build an underground laboratory in the former Homestake Gold Mine; and the Internet 2 2010 Spring Member Meeting in Arlington, Va. The purpose of the videoconference is to demonstrate how the scientists and the state are using Internet 2 — a super high-speed Internet connection that is used to transmit massive amounts of information — at the Sanford Lab. The live, high definition videoconference will show how the former Homestake gold mine, once the deepest mine in North America, is being transformed into a high-tech national deep underground science and engineering laboratory.
The deep underground laboratory will offer physicists a "quiet" environment that will shield extremely sensitive experiments from the noise of background cosmic radiation. Geologists, biologists, hydrologists, biochemists and other scientists also plan experiments at DUSEL. However, the project presents extreme challenges for those who are building an advanced networking environment that will reach a mile and a half below the earth's surface when completed. The network must support underground connections at multiple levels and enable high-speed, secure access from globally distributed research teams. Project leaders are already collaborating with Internet2's community to prepare the way for the immense volume of scientific data that must be stored, processed, distributed and analyzed by scientists in the coming years.
Installed in South Dakota in 2007, Internet 2 is available at all six universities, the Sanford Lab, and to state government.
In addition to the videoconference the meeting will also include a video that will highlight the importance of the DUSEL project for the Internet 2 users conference. The video was produced by the Sanford Lab, drawing from a large pool of talent contributions from Fermilab, Black Hills State University, S.D. Public Broadcasting, Dakota State University and a former NBC and CBS news producer. Bill Harlan, communications director for the Sanford Lab said the video is about 10 minutes long and highlights various aspects of the project.
“They’re calling it the DUSEL demo, and it’s a demonstration of how the high speed data connection from underground at the Sanford Lab is ready to go,” Harlan said of the Internet 2 demonstration.
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Written by Wendy Pitlick
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Monday, 05 April 2010 |
LEAD — Scientists working on the LUX (Large Underground Xenon) experiment hope the Davis Cavern of the lab will be their lucky charm in their quest to detect dark matter.
That’s what Drs. Tom Shutt of Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, and Rick Gaitskell of Brown University in Rhode Island told a full house of Northern Hills residents recently at the Golden Hills Inn, when they discussed their dark matter experiment for one of the popular Deep Science lectures the Sanford Lab has become known for. The event drew about 105 people.
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Written by Wendy Pitlick
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Tuesday, 30 March 2010 |
Long Baseline Neutrino Experiment could cost up to $940M for construction
LEAD The U.S. Department of Energy has effectively aligned itself with the National Science Foundation in order to support an anchor science experiment that will be housed in DUSEL and could cost up to $940 million for construction.
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