2015 / 2016 Field Season – Page 7 – ANSMET, The Antarctic Search for Meteorites

Where in the World?

December 14, 2015

The 2015-16 ANSMET team is stuck in McMurdo for at least another day. We’re really anxious to get out in the field, and as a substitute for actually being in the Miller Range we’ve been visualizing our future traverses by studying the maps of the area (see map- red...

Silence is golden

December 12, 2015

No word from the 2015-2016 field team in the past 24 hours is almost certainly good news. There's no better word to use than "hustle" for this put-in period. The field team members are scrambling all over McMurdo to get their field gear together, their personal belongings stowed for their return,...

The Village People

December 10, 2015

Progress. Not now, maybe later, but progress.

December 9, 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...

ANSMET on the air…..

December 10, 2015

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...

Money! Yay, Money!

December 8, 2015

...... 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.

Food, glorious food…….

December 7, 2015

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 team is out of McMurdo for Survival School

December 5, 2015

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,...

Quit monkeying around ANSMET…

December 4, 2015

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...

Snow machines!

December 3, 2015

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...

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