{"id":885,"date":"2011-03-22T17:21:59","date_gmt":"2011-03-23T00:21:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arturopelayo.com\/?p=885"},"modified":"2016-04-13T16:48:07","modified_gmt":"2016-04-13T23:48:07","slug":"2011-e-base-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arturopelayo.com\/?p=885","title":{"rendered":"Communications Officer for the 2011 E-Base Mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In March 2011, I was invited by Sir Robert Swan, OBE, \u00a0to be part of the 2011 E-Base Mission. The E-Base is located on the edge of the Russian Bellingshausen base in King George Island, Antarctica.<\/p>\n<p>My duties included:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Be the primary point of contact between the Chilean and Russian bases for the activities of the team.<\/li>\n<li>Assist and document the upgrades made by a team of 5 engineers from CLP Holdings Inc.\n<ul>\n<li>Installation of a new wind turbine<\/li>\n<li>Installation of a new weather station with no moving parts<\/li>\n<li>Automation of data relay system through new SIMcard modem from Antarctica to Hong Kong<\/li>\n<li>Servicing of battery array<\/li>\n<li>Testing of new water heating and water boiling prototypes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Create educational podcasts for use in Elementary and Secondary schools (K12).<\/li>\n<li>Create educational podcasts for use in Higher Education.<\/li>\n<li>Provide updates to the @IAE11 twitter account and upload photos of the daily activities of the team.<\/li>\n<li>Engage with schools and coordinate video\/audio calls via Skype.\n<ul>\n<li>Two calls in Australia<\/li>\n<li>Seven calls in the United States of America<\/li>\n<li>Three calls in the United Kingdom<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As part of the media outreach, I collaborated with <a title=\"future.ly website\" href=\"http:\/\/www.future.ly\" target=\"_blank\">future.ly<\/a> to have the 2041 E-Base listed as the first innovation hotspot in their new Innovation Directory. \u00a0Further, \u00a0in this collaboration, a video of Sir Robert Swan was recorded in the E-Base for the promotion of \u00a0<a title=\"future.ly website\" href=\"http:\/\/www.future.ly\" target=\"_blank\">future.ly<\/a> and this video was displayed in their homepage during the launch week.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You can see the video here:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"480\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-cEO2xTeNRE\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In March 2011, I was invited to be part of the 2011 Educational Base (E-Base) of 2041. The E-Base is located on the edge of the Russian Bellingshausen base in King George Island, Antarctica.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":887,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[108,58,5,10,9,4,67,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-event-attendance","category-design-2","category-idt","category-international","category-lead","category-socmed","category-volunteer","category-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arturopelayo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arturopelayo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arturopelayo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arturopelayo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arturopelayo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=885"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/arturopelayo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1018,"href":"https:\/\/arturopelayo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885\/revisions\/1018"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arturopelayo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arturopelayo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arturopelayo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arturopelayo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}