78.2232° N · 15.6473° E
We map the places the charts leave blank.
Polar Research Supplies is a scientific logistics contractor. We source, engineer, and validate the portable gear that keeps research campaigns alive at the edge of the survivable.
Field operations · 60°–90° N & S
The human element
At −55°C, the margin between working and stranded is measured in minutes.
Steel turns brittle. Lithium sheds its charge. Bare skin freezes before a glove can be removed and replaced. Every system we configure has to be operable in heavy mitts, in a whiteout, by exhausted hands — because in the field there is no second attempt.
If it can't be serviced in a blizzard at −45°C wearing heavy mitts, we don't source it.
The cold-chamber protocol
Nothing reaches the ice unproven.
Parameter synchronization
Operating latitudes, payload mass, and temperature thresholds are translated into a material and structural spec.
Structural cryo-audit
Every build runs a 72-hour deep-freeze cycle under full operational load — composite deflection, seal integrity, charge retention.
Live Svalbard deployment
Validated gear ships to the field. Performance telemetry returns to the audit loop for the next revision.
Svalbard verification facility
−38°C // Wind 42 kt // Twilight
Recorded logs
Expedition traverses
University sled expedition
Svalbard traverse corridor
1,200 km transit, zero structural failures logged at −48°C.
Deep-core station support
Summit Station deep-core grid
Vacuum-insulated battery blocks held charge through −55°C nights.
Ice-sheet research traverse
Sverdrup Basin, Nunavut
Heated micro-LIDAR pods mapped crevasse networks in real time.
Ny-Ålesund standardization
Ny-Ålesund science sector
Modular pulk couplings standardized across multi-team caravans.