Recon team – Black rock nightmare

Tomoko Arai, Recon team, 6th January 2013, Szabo Bluff Though it has been a bit windy these last two days, we did go out for meteorite search on several blue ice fields around Szabo Bluff. We are glad that fourteen meteorites were recovered yesterday, and one beautiful large carbonaceous chondrite...

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Field Camp Chandelier

Stan Love, G-058 Larkman Nunatak Camp 2013 January 5 Every Scott tent in every field camp in Antarctica has a chandelier hanging from the apex. Here is a picture of ours. The photo may be a bit hard to interpret. Recall that the Scott tent is shaped like a pyramid about...

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Thermostatting

Rob Coker, January 3rd 2013, Larkman Nunatak Since my mother (hi, mom!) asked the other day about clothes down here, I thought I'd write a bit about how we not only stay safe from the cold but also from overheating. This balancing of hot and cold is called thermostatting. To...

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ANSMET Twenty Years Later…

Mini Wadhwa, ANSMET Systematic Search Team, Larkman Nunatak, January 2, 2013 The beginning of the New Year is usually a time for reflection and making lists. Since we have a tent day today (see photo of the whiteout conditions in camp earlier today), this is exactly what I set out...

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Recon team

Katie Joy, Recon Team, 1st January 2013, Szabo Bluff Happy New Year everyone! Hope that you are well and happy and that you saw the New Year in with good cheer. The recon team have had a glorious couple of days after the trials and bad weather of the previous two...

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