Contest Update

This is a quick update on our contest for the most extreme measurement in honor of the Olympics.  Enter by sending your most extreme measurement using Apogee products to devin.overly@apogeeinstruments.com for a chance to win a $100 credit on Apogee products and services.


Our current most extreme measurements are listed below.   If you have a measurement that beats it, send us an email!

Highest (altitude)
4557 feet; measured at Apogee Instruments headquarters

Deepest (underwater)
2 feet; measured at Apogee Instruments headquarters

Hottest
61.36 C; measured by a horizontal FOV infrared radiometer (SI-1H1) on 6/28/12 at 1:30 pm at at the University of Arizona’s Maricopa Agricultural Research Center, Maricopa, Arizona

Coldest
-37.565 C; measured by the SI-111 infrared radiometer on 7/2/11 at 11:00 at a buried ice mass in Garwood Valley of the Dry Valleys of Antarctica 

Farthest North (latitude)
41.7 north; measured at Apogee Instruments headquarters

Farthest South (latitude)
-78.03 south; at a buried ice mass in Garwood Valley of the Dry Valleys of Antarctica 


The contest ends on August 12, 2012.  See the Citius, Altius, Fortius blog post for more details.

Citius, Altius, Fortius

The Olympic Games will be held in London, England this summer and have the motto of Citius, Altius, Fortius or “Swifter, Higher, Stronger.” At Apogee, we strive to design sensors that perform well in rugged environments and would like to sponsor a friendly competition by surveying where individuals have used our sensors.

Prizes will be awarded for the following categories:

• highest (altitude)
• deepest (underwater)
• hottest
• coldest
• farthest north (latitude)
• farthest south (latitude)

The prize for each category is $100 towards equipment or services offered by Apogee Instruments and a write-up on our website highlighting the research being done.

To qualify, the Apogee Instruments sensor must be deployed in a natural environment (no artificial chambers) and record a measurement. To submit your information (or if you have any questions), send an email to devin.overly@apogeeinstruments.com with the value measured, latitude and longitude of the location, day and time the measurement was taken, any environmental data relevant to the contest, and, if possible, pictures of the sensor in action. We will accept submissions through the last day of the Olympics, 12 August 2012. If a winning entry is submitted after that date, we will highlight it on our website but no other prize will be given.

 

 

Devin Overly

General Manager