2014 / 2015 Field Season – Page 9 – ANSMET, The Antarctic Search for Meteorites

How the team is preparing for the trip!

November 24, 2014

With one week to go, how am I feeling about this upcoming adventure? Grateful. Grateful for the opportunity to be an ANSMET team member and go to the coolest place on Earth… Grateful for all my friends and family who are as excited about this adventure as I am… Grateful for everyone...

John and Brian are in McMurdo

November 22, 2014

Just before dinner tonight John and Brian called me from McMurdo Station. They report that they arrived in McMurdo late on Wednesday after limited delays (just a few hours) in Christchurch. Yesterday they experienced a gateway event for all Antarctic Science groups, the In-Brief. This is basically a very quick...

2014-15 Team introduction

November 11, 2014

The 2014-2015 ANSMET field team has been selected and is busy preparing for the trip to the ice. Johnny and the assistant mountaineer will go down to McMurdo in Mid-November to start preparations and the rest of the team will follow about two weeks later. ANSMET field teams are made...

2014 2015 Season Preview

November 11, 2014

Hi Everyone! Welcome to the first post of the 2014-2015 Antarctic Search for Meteorites (ANSMET) field season. The 2014-2015 field season takes ANSMET back to the Davis-Ward icefields, one of a number of productive meteorite stranding surfaces in the southern headwaters of the Beardmore Glacier. ANSMET has visited the...

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