The overall goal of the MANA project is to improve scientific data acquisition in polar regions.

The MANA project aims at developing a new generation of data logger adapted to extreme weather conditions and limited bandwidth that are the characteristics of harsh, remote environments. The innovation proposed by the involved researchers consists of:

• Leveraging wireless sensor networking technology to connect densely deployed sensors to the data logger


• Designing an autonomous data logger that controls the quality of the collected data and that adjusts its sampling strategy to improve the relevance of the collected data while optimizing resource utilization.

Throughout the project, the project partners will conduct field experiments at the Zackenberg Research Station in North-east Greenland. It’s expected that by the end of the project, the data acquisition system developed by the researchers on the MANA project will be an integrated unit of the Zackenberg basic monitoring program.