When the University of Montana needed to power monitoring equipment in remote mountainous areas for a environmental research project Background A University of Montana research project involves studying the Earth’s lithosphere to understand the mechanisms that produce the continental landscape, especially how landscape is related to the forces associated with tectonics and topography. The ultimate goal is to educate local populations about potential earthquakes in order to lessen fatalities. This research uses many di?erent tools, including numerical simulation, GPS geodesy, seismology and tectonic geomorphology in the western U.S., Central Asia, and Ethiopia. Challenge The project consists of placing equipment in very remote and mountainous areas of the world, where access is limited. Pow

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