College of Arts and Sciences

Happy New Year!  Given our location just west of the international date line, we get to be among the first on the planet to celebrate the arrival of 2015. On this particularly beautiful day, we took the opportunity to do some reconnaissance of the surrounding peaks.  This gave the newbies...

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  As much as I like to think I am clever, and to make these blogs funny (and informative), after two straight days of searching for 8+ hours in the wind and the cold, I’m mostly trying not to nod off and fall asleep in my one pot meal. Thus,...

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Christmas: The day dawned clear windy and cold (not exactly a surprise for Antarctica). Most of the team went for a recon drive over to a new ice field looking for Christmas Presents of the meteorite variety. Despite the unsearched area, pickings were slim, with only 5 meteorites bagged....

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Now, a quote from Karate Kid may seem like an odd subject line for a blog about correcting meteorites. Also, I realize that past blogs from me have a history of being slightly wanderingy (I’ve decided that this is in fact a word), but stay with me and this...

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The winds were strong (~25 kts) again this morning, which caused us to stay in our tents until after lunch.  And unfortunately, due to the turbulence aloft, Ralph's scheduled pull-out flight was canceled.  Ralph's plans were to only be in the field for the first portion of the trip,...

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degrees Celsius...that would be 35 mph and -31 Fahrenheit in civilized units (I had to use the original units because it is a Belgian who let me use her weather station...and she had demands). The wind is still blowing along at a pretty good clip as we try...

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Christmas Eve was a productive day here at Davis-Ward.  Although the conditions were somewhat marginal in the morning, the last 2.5 days in our tents provided extra motivation for braving the winds and cloudy conditions.  Even with those drawbacks -- the poor lighting makes it harder to distinguish meteorites...

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  The weather that brought our great first morning of meteorite-collecting to a halt after lunch yesterday continued today.  Blowing snow kept us inside all day, giving us our first full tent day.  I haven't yet gotten the wind speed measured, but the temperature is in the range of -20...

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