Registration is required for this free, virtual event.
Hamptons Observatory and co-host, Suffolk County Community College, are honored to present a free, virtual lecture by polar explorer and inventor, Ramon Larramendi.
The Inuit Windsled was invented by polar explorer, Ramon Larramendi. It is the first wind-powered mobile platform capable of traveling extensively through the remote interiors of Greenland and Antarctica. Ramon undertook this project when he realized that the strong polar winds could be used to facilitate the transport of people and equipment through the ice and that the Inuit dog sleds could adapt to take advantage of that wind energy. The Windsled is a very efficient alternative for zero emissions, lightweight, interdisciplinary scientific polar research in otherwise inaccessible regions. It has already traveled more than 18,000 kilometers on nine expeditions. In this lecture, Ramon will describe the challenges of polar exploration, the history of the Windsled and its potential for science.