The morning started with a 4:40am wake-up call! After driving around town in the Super Shuttle picking up other passengers headed to the ice, we arrived that the CDC to change clothes into our ECW…
Some of us are home, so of us are on the way home. With various weather delays last week, our flights to the ice sites at the top of Byrd Glacier above two subglacial lakes were canceled three days…
We've had two more days of canceled flights to complete our work. The only remaining units we have left to deploy are two summer ice sites and the end of the glacier on the Ross Ice Shelf, and two…
We flew our third and likely final heli day yesterday. We installed three winter-over ice sites and an additional four summer ice sites. That brings our grand total so far to 27 GPS sites! We are…
We’re flying! OK, not at the moment, but we’ve been flying the past 2 days! I can attempt to describe the process; however, I think pictures will do the most justice in this case.
The team headed…
So we've been out of contact for a couple of days, and unfortunately the only reason is that there hasn't been much interesting news to share. We loaded up a truck to transport our gear down to the…
I'll let the pictures do most of the talking here, but it's at least worth explaining what we did all day yesterday. The morning started out with some indoor training. We reviewed several different…
Members of our team here in Antarctica, Leigh and Gordon are featured in a NY Times article about their research in Greenland. Take a look!
http://tinyurl.com/3anm9es
Our work here has finally settled down a bit. We've really had a chance to enjoy the weekend. With Antarctic weather somewhat unpredictable (like in most places), flights are canceled and…
Yesterday was a day of leisure, then work, then some more leisure time. We started out just checking email, relaxing enough. Then it was off to the aquarium. There is an aquarium in Phase III (…
In McMurdo you have to take a training class for everything. This is probably for good reason but some of the training seems a little overkill. Yesterday four of us took light vehicle training so…
A logistics nightmare! OK, not really, just VERY complicated planning has been taking place, and rightfully so. We are walking on snow no one has walked on before.
Yesterday, members of our team…