This server is administered by SRI International for use by the Arctic Research Support and Logistics Services program, funded by the office of Polar Programs, National Science Foundation.

SRI is a member of VECO Polar Resources, a consortium of VECO Corporation, Polar Field Services, and SRI International. VPR is the NSF's Arctic logistics contractor, providing transportation, field camp, communications, and infrastructure support to well over 100 projects annually throughout the Arctic and near-Arctic. (For more information about VPR and the proposal assistance program visit http://www.vecopolar.com.)

POLAR.SRI.COM hosts various VPR project web sites, databases, and FTP file shares for VPR's clients and staff. These include--

SummitStation -- This site publishes information about Summit Station, Greenland, a research camp operated by VPR for Arctic research. Overview, visitor guides, and camp status data are available at this site.

Databases hosted here include network, weather, and energy data. This site also provides anonymous FTP access to scientific data generated at Summit Station for researchers and their colleagues. This data is supplemented daily by the technician staff at Summit Station and copied to this server for researchers' access.

PolarPower.org -- PolarPower.org is a NFS-funded site designed to offer researchers and staff resources on designing and deploying power and communications gear in the Arctic and Antarctic regions.

Datalogger -- This site hosts the daily telemetry, meteorological data, and scientific data generated by an autonomous measurement station as part of the research of Dr. Patrick Sullivan in his NSF grant, number ANT-0528748. Data is transmitted via Iridium modem daily to this server for display on this site.

Toolik -- Operations information for the Toolik Field Station, Toolik Lake, Alaska which is operated by the University of Alaska, Fairbanks (http://www.uaf.edu/toolik/.) The Generator Module status can be found here.

ARSLS Inventory -- This site is used by VPR staff to track the program's communications gear issued to research scientists each year. This server houses a database of the equipment, allowing VPR to track equipment through the web interface.

POLAR.SRI.COM runs Fedora Linux, Apache Web Server, and TurboGears.