Did you guess that the image was of the inside of an airplane? The airplane, or C-17, that takes passengers back from the ice to New Zealand is pretty neat inside. All of the vents, cables, and…
My first Antarctic penguins!
I arrived in McMurdo after an uneventful cold deck flight from WAIS Divide. The last ice collected this season is now in McMurdo, safely in the SafeCore refrigeration…
Many aspects of life change when you move to an ice sheet to camp for over two months. Some of these changes, like sleeping in a tent outside or working in a freezer at -30 C all day, are difficult…
Today I leave WAIS Divide. In a matter of hours I will be on Ross Island at McMurdo Station. I am leaving before the rest of the crew as I have been selected to travel with the last pallets of ice…
Once the ice is collected and packed, as described in the Packing Ice journal entry, the ice will travel over 10,000 miles back to the United States.
The journey begins when the ice is removed from…
The final drill depth for the 2010-2011season is 3,331.538 meters. We've officially reached our goal! Given the challenges of the season, we were all relieved and thrilled to reach our goal! The…
Given that we are so far away from food sources, we don't have any real wild animals at WAIS Divide. However, there are several animal suits in camp. Our zoo includes three gorillas, two penguins,…
The item in mystery photo #9 is an ice core box. These ice core boxes are special insulated boxes that we pack ice cores in for transport back to the United States. Each box holds four, one meter…
Today was a historic day for the U.S. ice core drilling community. The WAIS Divide ice core is now longest American drilled ice core in history! At 12:02 a.m. we drilled to a depth of 3056 meters,…
