Science Camp Hessdalen

Info

This site is about a 3-year research project funded by the Olav Thon Foundation for supporting student active research in Hessdalen.

Historie

In the leadership of the research project is Professor Anna-Lena Kjøniksen and Assistant Professor Bjorn Gitle Hauge from Østfold University College,
In the period 03.19.2016 - 24.03.2016 a field research program will be conducted in the Hessdalen region. The purpose is to establish basecamps on two strategic mountains tops at 1000m altitudes. This has never been done before. A new camera system, called "Eagle Eye" ,will be able to survey the total optical sphere around and over the mountains continuously. This calls for 24h manned mountain bases in rough winter conditions, researchers living in tents and transported up at the mountaintops by snow scooters. RADAR will be used together with the Eagle Eye camera system to detect ionized matter in the low atmosphere over Hessdalen. One mountaintop, Grønåshøgda, is equipped with RADAR and “Eagle Eye” and the other , Kåshøgda is equipped with cameras surveying the east horizon towards Grønåshøgda. This base is equipped with a “Electric Field Mill”, EFM, which measures the strength of the static electric field in the atmosphere, which may give evidence about creation of ionized matter. Both mountain bases will also be equipped with Geiger counters and Radon detectors.

Vår oppgave

Finding out what triggers Hessdalen phenomenon and how it occurs.