On September 14, 2010, the ECSU Board of Trustees was given a tour of the Elizabeth City State University PolarGrid Laboratory in Lane Hall by Dr. Linda Hayden, PI for the PolarGrid and CReSIS projects at ECSU.

PolarGrid is an National Science Foundation (NSF) Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) funded partnership of Indiana University and Elizabeth City State University. The partnership goal is to acquire and deploy the computing infrastructure needed to investigate the urgent problems in glacial melting. PolarGrid's major components and concept of operations are depicted in the figure below. A complete description of the project is available at http://www.polargrid.org.

Dr. Hayden's presentation can be found at: http://nia.ecsu.edu/ppt/cerser_capability_100914.pptx

ECSU Board of Trustees