Another update from Da Boss

As of this writing,  all ANSMET personnel have left Antarctica and are on their way home via Christchurch,  NZ.   I will put together a post to wrap-up the season sometime in about a week,  so stay tuned.....   Ralph Harvey,  PI of ANSMET,  Case Western Reserve University.  

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McMurdo Activities

  Katie Joy, McMurdo Station, 26th January 2013     In the last few days the ANSMET systematic team’s cargo was returned from Ottway Massif. The team have been cleaning up and inventorying gear, and packing up equipment in preparation for the next field season. Five members – Tomoko, Joe, Marianne, Rob and Andrew...

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Short update from da boss…..

- Ralph Harvey,  Case Western Reserve U. this just in, circa 1:20 pm east coast US time.   Jim, Andrew and Rob are finally back in McMurdo after several days stuck at Otway.....  And a couple of people (Mini and Tom) are already in Christchurch!  The team in wending their...

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Ice-tronauts

Stan Love McMurdo Station, Antarctica 2013 January 23 "If you've done ANSMET, you've done long duration space flight." -- Don Pettit, ANSMET veteran and three-time Space Shuttle and International Space Station crew member. A future human mission to Mars will be tough for the crew. They will be separated from friends, family, and the...

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back in town

      Katie Joy, Recon team, 23rd January 2013 The ANSMETrecon team left South Pole on the 21st Jan (see photo of the LC-130 plane that transported us), are now back in McMurdo. We are currently waiting for our cargo to be delivered from the South Pole and from the field site at the...

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The final few days at Otway

Andrew Beck, G-058, Sunday January 21st, Otway Massif, Antarctica Four of the G-058 team members were picked up by LC-130 last Friday and are currently in McMurdo Station. The LC-130's are big, but they aren’t big enough to get the whole team and our cargo out of the field in...

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