Brunswick Landing facilities to aid in coral reef research
Tempus Jets announced on Tuesday that it will use its facilities at the Brunswick Landing business campus to modify a Gulfstream IV jet by adding a portable remote imaging spectrometer to assist in a NASA field expedition to study the world’s coral reef systems.
Design of the modification will take place at Tempus Jets’ Virginia headquarters, while the actual outfitting of the aircraft will take place at its 84,000-square-foot-facility at Brunswick Landing, according to the Bangor Daily News.
“Right now, the state of the art for collecting coral reef data is scuba diving with a tape measure,” Eric Hochberg, the principal investigator and scientist at the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences, St. George’s, said in a statement in January. “It’s analogous to looking at a few trees and then trying to say what the forest is doing.”
Tempus’ contract for the modifications is with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, with funding from the coral reef study coming from a program that selects airborne and field investigations that complement its satellite missions.
The BDN reports that modifications of the business jet just began and are expected to wrap up in May.
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