Today has been a bittersweet day...I did not go out to the rig, but instead packed my bags while waiting for the arrival of the helicopter to begin my long voyage home. Although I am now writing…
My time here at the lake is winding down. If the weather holds, and it looks like it will, the helicopter will come and I will fly out tomorrow. Out on the rig, the down-hole logging team is…
As I write I am out on the drilling platform, the drilling crew is working on a repair so the drilling has temporarily been paused. The wind is really picking up so I don't think I will go out for a…
After arriving at Lake E, I promised Addie Holland and Kristina Brady that I would go out with them to the rig for the night shift one night. I kept postponing this until they were about ready to…
After one night in the igloo, the bed felt pretty good last night... I just did not spend enough time in it! The down-hole loggers finished their work around mid-night so the night shift started…
Happy Easter to every one back home... Here in Russia, Easter will be celebrated next week! I have been working on a series of videos... conversations with Julie Brigham-Grette about Lake E, geology…
Today was another full day out here at Lake E. On the drill rig we recovered more sediment cores today than many of the previous days. As I mentioned yesterday on one of the Ask the team questions…
I wanted to share the video about ice safety. If you read yesterday's post, I told you about working with Volker Neth our German-Canadian Ice engineer. Here he is in his own words describing work on…
Today has been a busy day... and fortunately, for all the activity, the weather has been spectacular. Not a cloud in the sky and temperature around 0 F. I can't believe how warm it was today.The…
LIVE FROM IPY EVENT COMMING SOON!! WE WANT TO TALK TO YOU! Today was another logging day out on the drilling platform. Because of the continued difficulty extracting sediment, it is very important…
LIVE FROM IPY EVENT COMMING SOON!! WE WANT TO TALK TO YOU!I spent a good part of the day out on the drill rig again... the longer I am here, the more I learn and the more useful I can be. Whether…
Although the wind is still blowing, it is not as hard as it was last night. Today was another day for drilling out on the platform. Our results continued to be mixed... sometimes we were pulling up…