Yearly Archives: 2015
Quick note here- Just got off the phone with Jim Karner and John Schutt in McMurdo. As is so often the case, the availability of aircraft (or lack thereof) is making havoc of the schedule. LC-130's and Twin Otters are both oversubscribed for the next week, so Jim and John...
Hi everyone, Nina (rapidly becoming our native TV personality) and ANSMET are getting splashed all over the intertubes. Please note that some of these aren't live yet, I'll update the post as I learn more.
- A "60 seconds of Science" interview put together by Los Alamos National Laboratory..... click below or visit...
...... this just in, the grant money NASA promised for this season finally showed up at Case, just a few minutes ago....... and no further comment shall be made.
After the weekend shakedown cruise, we are ready to get going! And so began a whole day of preparing. Each tent team had been given a list of food items available to be requisitioned for deployment. The list must have had more than 100 items on there! In the...
The ANSMET team is back in McMurdo after a fun and successful shakedown! The purpose of a shakedown trip is to practice setting up tents, driving snowmobiles in uneven terrain, and test out all our gear with time to exchange things in McMurdo afterwards before going out to the...
No update from the team this morning- they left McMurdo yesterday for their overnight shakedown/survival school trip. Usually they get back in mid-day on Sunday (their time) which corresponds to late evening Saturday continental US time. They'll be excited but also hungry and tired and have chores to do,...
Con, Cindy, and Jim at varying stages of ascending the ropes with prusik knots with the rest of the ANSMET team helping and encouraging.
Although you wouldn’t know it from the picture alone, today was all about safety. After the official and mandatory briefing on how to sort our...
Today was our first full day in McMurdo! It was a mighty fine and very full day with lots of training and lots of gear. From this newbie’s perspective, the amount of both stuff and logistics is daunting. But, the wonderful McMurdo staff is always on hand to lend...
We are officially en route to Antarctica! I am writing this aboard a Royal New Zealand Air Force Hercules heading toward McMurdo Station. It’s a 7+ h flight from Christchurch, so we have a brief break to prepare ourselves for the work ahead of us. This is my first...