. >> reporter: robb bauer is a researchers with cu boulder. and part of a team testing this proet owe type weather station in the middle of grand lake to see if it would hold up to conditions at the south pole. >> we don't want to take this to the ocean, which antarctica until we got all the bugs, you know, worked out. >> reporter: that includes how it would fare as it measures frozen surface. now, we're kind of interested, too, in what's going on beneath the ice shell. >> reporter: at 190 feet, grand lake is the deepest lake in colorado and provides the conditions closest to what the antarctica. a camera on the weather station captures aimths in 360 degrees and the station transmits valuable data about air and ocean temperatures, wind speeds and even how fast glaciers are moving. all of that researchers say could be tied in the potential for rising seas. >> in, many r. -- many, many months of work as been testing it so you get confident to where this thing can keep going and going. >> that's going to contribute to us knowing more about an are