Art on the Ice
Every Sunday at McMurdo Base, there is a "Science Lecture" after dinner. I have attended a couple of these lectures, and they have always been pretty interesting. There was one about…
Where Science Meets Art in the Antarctic!
Merry Christmas, everyone!
In honor of the holidays, some of the Velvet Ice team decided to shake things up in our study of ice crystals... namely,…
Metal Sculptures around McMurdo
With another extra day to spare, since our flight to WAIS Divide had been cancelled again, Rachel invited me to join her on a walk around McMurdo to take pictures of…
With time to spare at McMurdo, while we continue to await our WAIS Divide flights, we are actively looking for things to do.
Rachel caught wind of a Gingerbread House Competition taking place in the…
The time has come to leave the comfortable and familiar life at McMurdo Base, and head for our remote field camp at WAIS Divide.
The process of flying in Antarctica is so different from anywhere…
by Tiffany Green
Greetings! Tiffany here, guest blogging for Yamini. While Yamini was at her awesome sea ice training and expedition (check out blogs on 16 & 17 Dec) was offered the opportunity…
Image credit: Sathya Gray
Special Event - Global Meditation from WAIS Divide, Antarctica
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Yamini Bala and members of the Velvet Ice team will host…
Yamini and team wanted to us to announce that they will be hosting a PolarConnect event on 27 December 2014. This is a special event with the team and Global Meditation. This PolarConnect (real-time…
by Rachel Obbard
One of my many hats is that of a glaciologist – I study the material properties of ice and snow and how microstructure (of individual ice crystals) affects macrostructural…
Lest you should read the title of this journal and start picturing me on some fancy dinner cruise, or hunting whales on the open ocean, let me clarify a couple of things...
A) This is what night…
Today, I was able to attend a full day sea ice training with Field Safety Instructor, Ned Corkran.
Each winter, the top of the ocean around Antarctica freezes into a 2m (6ft) thick layer of sea ice…
Today was the first day when I truly felt like I was in Antarctica.
We spent the whole morning in an orientation session called Field Support and Training. This was a four hour course, condensed…
