2014 / 2015 Field Season – ANSMET, The Antarctic Search for Meteorites

Season’s endings.

November 30, 2015

As I write this the last of the 2014-2015 ANSMET field party members (John Schutt) should be heading for the MEC to catch his flight to Christchurch and soon afterwards his home in Washington State. Thus it seems like a perfect time to try and sum up the season. Before...

The long and winding road

November 27, 2015

So one of the reasons that I write these blogs so infrequently, is that I have a terrible short term memory. I mean, I’m not quite the dog from Up (Squirrel!), but if we just met and you told me your name, then I’ve very likely forgotten your name...

5 of us made it to Christchurch

January 27, 2015

Five of us -- Christine, Vinciane, Shannon, Jim,and I -- made it to Christchurch today. Jim is heading home asap (tomorrow morning, 5am shuttle to the airport) to see his 9-month-old daughter. The rest of us have one or more days for seeing Christchurch and/or...

no go this morning to Chrischurch, but the cargo ship arrived this afternoon

January 20, 2017

Contrary to the last sentence of yesterday’s blog, we didn’t make it out this morning after all. The original manifest of ~50 people had shrunk to 7 when we showed up at 6:15am for transport to the airfield, and those 7 did not include any of us. So a...

update to the update, and impromptu air show!

January 24, 2015

Let me first update Ralph’s Jan 20 update – John and Brian made it back to McMurdo from CTAM. They were there ~24 hours longer than planned, due to weather, but no doubt the gear that’s being left there until next season is now highly...

Update…..

January 20, 2015

Heard from McMurdo that Jim, Ryan, Devon and Shannon made it to mcmurdo last night; John and Brian are still out at CTAM trying to get the last few loads organized.

Back to civilization!

January 19, 2015

Hello again the world!! Christine and I made it to McMurdo. It sounds like nothing, but it has been a real challenge. Just back a bit in time, the initial planning was to have 3 DC3-Bassler flights directly to McMurdo. Then, yesterday, the planning was having John, Brian, Shannon...

our last blog from the field (hopefully!)

January 19, 2015

Yesterday went according to plan. . . for the most part. The beautiful weather at 7am had degenerated by late morning, when the Twin Otter aircraft was due to arrive, to completely overcast conditions. But we had put out duffel bags to mark the landing strip, and the pilots were able...

An Antarctic Juggling Act…..

January 18, 2015

I just got done communicating with the fixed wing coordinator in McMurdo. The pull out from Davis-Ward is underway, and it's an amazing plan. One Twin Otter today, taking a load to CTAM and another load straight back to McMurdo. Then THREE twin otters do the same tomorrow, and again...

our last search day!

January 17, 2015

We enjoyed our final day of field work yesterday. We were actually surprised this was our last day as we had been expecting another day or two of work. More on this later. But, we wrapped-up our field work by doing a number of different activities. Firstly, we did...

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