For some reason, Antarcticans (or maybe scientists in general?) will go to extreme lengths to make their project into an acronym. Some are such a stretch that I'm beginning to think they choose the acronym and design the description of their project around it. For example, the project that I was working on at Lake Bonney was called ENDURANCE, which stood for "Environmentally Non-Disturbing Underwater Robot in ANtarCtica's Environment." It was a super sweet project and I loved it, the acronyms around here just make me laugh.
Other beeker project acronyms:
CREAM - The Cosmic Ray Energetics and Mass (CREAM) experiment was designed and constructed to measure cosmic ray elemental spectra using a series of ultra long duration balloon (ULDB) flights.
AMANDA - Antarctic Muon And Neutrino Detector Array (the forerunner of the IceCube neutrino telescope project at the South Pole)
SuperDARN - Super Dual Auroral Radar Network (SuperDARN), a consortium of 9 nations operating 16 identical radars over the Arctic and Antarctica.
NICL - National Ice Core Laboratory
ANSMET - Antarctic Search for Meteorites
Ehm, AMANDA is NOT part of IceCube project - it was the forerunner experiment :-)
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