John and Brian are in McMurdo

Just before dinner tonight John and Brian called me from McMurdo Station.  They report that they arrived in McMurdo late on Wednesday after limited delays (just a few hours) in Christchurch.  Yesterday they experienced a gateway event for all Antarctic Science groups,  the In-Brief.   This is basically a very quick...

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2014-15 Team introduction

The 2014-2015 ANSMET field team has been selected and is busy preparing for the trip to the ice.  Johnny and the assistant mountaineer will go down to McMurdo in Mid-November to start preparations and the rest of the team will follow about two weeks later. ANSMET field teams are made...

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2014 2015 Season Preview

Hi Everyone!   Welcome to the first post of the 2014-2015 Antarctic Search for Meteorites (ANSMET) field season. The 2014-2015 field season takes ANSMET back to the Davis-Ward icefields, one of a number of productive meteorite stranding surfaces in the southern headwaters of the Beardmore Glacier.    ANSMET has visited the...

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