Long-baseline environmental, water-quality and process research stations engineered for polar, mountain, desert, lake and oceanographic deployments. Designed to run unattended for months at a time, capture and preserve samples, run analytics at the edge and stream the data home over satellite. Counterpart to our underwater research stations for surface and shoreline programmes.
The full family of packaged, containerised, skid-mounted, research and assessment stations.
Submerged research stations for in-water programmes.
Source-water characterisation stations for pre-design site survey.
Collaborative research with academic partners.
Long-Baseline, Unattended, Telemetry-Connected
A remote research station is a self-contained scientific facility built to capture data and physical samples from somewhere humans rarely go. The brief might be lake chemistry through an Arctic winter, atmospheric deposition on a desert traverse, fish-pond inflow to a remote aquaculture farm, or river-flow and water-quality on a wilderness watershed. The technology answer is the same kind of compact, telemetry-connected, swap-out-on-failure plant covered elsewhere on the remote-deployment hub, but adapted to collect data rather than treat water: the kit-of-parts is analytical instrumentation, refrigerated sample storage, climate-controlled wet bench and an edge-compute / SCADA gateway that pushes the data home.
Equipment Pre-Integrated for the Research Brief
Programme Environments
Arctic and Antarctic continuous-monitoring stations for ice, snow, atmospheric and water-column chemistry. Survives total cold-soak shutdown and starts back up unattended.
Mountain watershed monitoring, glacier-front observation, summit atmospheric stations. Helicopter-only access; UV and lightning hardening as standard.
Desert hydrology, dust deposition, oasis monitoring, archaeological-site water-chemistry baseline. Solar-powered with sand-filtered intakes.
Long-baseline limnological stations on shore or at moored buoys for stratification, eutrophication and contaminant flux.
Shoreline and shallow-water research bases for in-situ marine chemistry, biology and contaminant flux studies.
Inflow / outflow monitoring for fish farms and conservation hatcheries. Continuous DO, ammonia, temperature, oxygen and turbidity logging.
Long-term baseline monitoring at national parks, biosphere reserves and conservation sites. Low-noise, low-impact installations.
Wet-deposition collectors, dry-deposition samplers, aerosol monitors integrated with the on-board analytical bench.
Three Common Research-Station Sizes
| Tier | Vessel / Shelter | Instrument Bays | Sample Storage | Typical Brief |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Compact | Skid-mounted, 1.5 × 2 m footprint | 1–2 | 4 °C only, 30 bottles | Single-parameter long-baseline (e.g. nutrient flux) |
| Standard | 10′ container, ~ 16 m³ | 3–5 | 4 °C + −20 °C, 150 bottles | Multi-parameter water-quality station |
| Research Facility | 20′ container, ~ 33 m³ | 6–12 | 4 °C + −20 °C + −80 °C | University-scale permanent station; visiting-researcher bench |
| Beyond this | Multi-container build | Project-specific | Project-specific | Hub-and-spoke programmes with linked field stations |
Research-Specific Compliance
Where the station feeds regulator data, traceable calibration and laboratory-quality management for the on-board analytical instruments.
Findable / Accessible / Interoperable / Reusable alignment for the SCADA historian. Export formats compatible with NetCDF, SeaDataNet and ENA.
Site protection and communications for visiting researchers per the operator’s lone-worker policy.
Marine-licence, wilderness-permit or biosphere-reserve compliance for the installation footprint, anchor design and discharge.
IEC 62443 alignment for the SCADA bridge to the home institution. VPN tunnel, signed firmware updates.
EN 13445 / ASME VIII for any pressure-rated components; EN 1090 EXC3 for the structural shelter.
All five product families.
Hub PageSubmerged sister family for in-water programmes.
Read MoreSource-water characterisation stations.
Read MoreCollaborative research with academic partners.
Read MoreWhen the station also has to treat its own water supply.
Read MoreSkid architecture for the smallest transport leg.
Read MoreTelemetry, historian and edge-compute design.
Read MoreShelter fabrication, fit-out and FAT.
Read MoreSend us the scientific brief and the deployment environment — we will scope and estimate within two weeks.
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