2014 / 2015 Field Season – Page 6 – ANSMET, The Antarctic Search for Meteorites

Ralph taking one for team morale…

December 16, 2014

Well, the good news is that the first 1/2 of the team is back on the schedule again for today (12/17). The bad news is that we're back-up for the flight back to Christchurch NZ, which means we seem pretty unlikely to actually fly (since they can land in Christchurch...

On the Patience of Seals

December 17, 2014

As of this writing (mid-morning Wednesday our time) we are once again on the board for a flight- our first group aiming for CTAM is scheduled to depart mcmurdo for the airfield at 11:15, but we are a backup for a flight to pole. Our second group isn't listed anywhere....

Ice Fog

December 15, 2014

We got so close today to deploying. After being on standby most of the day, we got word about 3:30 pm that our flights were on and that the first group needed to be at the transportation area at 5:15 pm. The second group would...

Endless Bagdragging- the smartphone app.

December 15, 2014

You know those "endless runner"-style games for smartphones, where you're looking over the shoulder at a little figure running on planks or walls or vines and dodging obstacles, ducking through gates, etc.? I think I'm stuck in one. Over the course of the last 24 hrs we've gone from...

flight situation up in the air (pun intended).

December 14, 2014

I guess I should be glad I'm a Browns fan- I have developed the ability to be optimistic and pessimistic simultaneously. We did our bag-drag last night for a double-shuttle to CTAM. A double-shuttle means the same plane would do two flights- first it would take John, Devon, Vinciane and Brian...

Bread, Flags, Daisies, Flights, Pie, and Rhinoceri

December 13, 2014

I have breaking news, a herd of rhinoceroses have been spotted in McMurdo Station! Now, I cannot rule out that this was a mixed herd of animals (personally I suspect that giraffes, wildebeests, bison, and stegosaurs were mixed in), but I feel that the rhinoceroses were the main culprit...

an _extremely_ short turn-around

December 12, 2014

Well, it turned out to be just a practice run today on getting the first of us onto the airplane for the flight to CTAM, as now, 4 hours later, we’re back in McMurdo. There was a bad electrical reading onboard, which could have been either just a bad...

up, up and awaaay….. (UPDATE …not so much).

December 11, 2014

The first of us are out of the gate and on the way to CTAM. John, Devon, Vinciane and Brian met (with the rest of us) at 11:15 this morning, and after some last-minute kerfuffling with a certain 35-year veteran of our program over ECW gear, off they went!...

Hello Phineas!

December 11, 2014

The ANSMET team would like to take a few minutes to say hello to Phineas and his prekindergarten class at Montessori Country Day in Houston Texas. We’re pretty much all packed up and ready to head out into the field to start collecting meteorites. All we need at this...

A room with a view (or actually, a view of a room. . .)

December 11, 2014

Today is the day! – for the first half of our team, anyway. Four of us are scheduled for the 1300 flight this afternoon to Beardmore (or CTAM, if you are keeping track previous blogs), from which we’ll then be flown to our camp. So...

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