"Said take me home" -Marc Broussard
What is home? Where is it? What defines it? What happens when it changes? These questions ran through my mind during my final days in Antarctica and are still…
"Who are the people in your neighborhood? The people that you meet each day"
-written by Jeff Moss performed by Muppets on Sesame Street
Yesterday morning my heart was fluttering! I was excited and…
"Tomorrow, tomorrow, it's only a day away!"
-from the musical Annie, music by Charles Strouse and lyrics by Martin Charnin
Today was another brilliant day of time spent on the ice in the dive hut…
"With a thousand million questions..." -Moody Blues
I looked at my watch...November 20th...WHAT?! November 20th! I leave Antarctica on November 26th! Ack! Only six days left on this cold, windy, icy…
"Celebrate good times, come on!" -Kool and the Gang
Join me on Friday, November 22nd (8:30 AM AKST, 9:30 AM PST, 10:30 AM MST, 11:30 AM CST, 12:30 PM EST) for a live event from McMurdo field station…
(thanks Bill Watterson author and illustrator of Calvin & Hobbes for today's journal title!)
AN ODE TO THE COLD
It stings my lips and bites my cheeks
I think my fingers have been numb for…
"Who Run the World...Girls" -Beyoncé
As we sped across the ice I thought about this gang of women I was with...the ones who fly past slow moving Pisten Bullys with a quick wave. They are the ones…
"Going off the rails on a crazy train" -Ozzy Osbourne
I revved the engine and took off sliding a bit, getting a feel for how to navigate the skis across the snow and ice. I love driving things and…
There was a sea spider that was so slow
Even the snail was yelling hey, let's go!
The sea spider doesn't worry
It's never in a hurry
There are some secrets that spider must know.
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The sea…
"Mysterious and spooky
They're altogether ooky"
-by Vic Mizzy, The Addams Family theme
A creature from outer space? No, just two sea spider genus Ammothea hanging out on a rock together. Crary Lab…
"She blinded me with science" -Thomas Dolby
At 8:30am on Monday we loaded up the PistenBully for another adventure to Evans Wall. After the hour and a half journey over the bumpy snow covered sea…
"I'm gonna get myself connected" -Stereo MCs
You've met Amy, Graham, and Aaron. I'm the final person who, for now, is the 4th member of B-307-the marine ectotherm team. I'm here temporarily to learn…
