Hello World! It’s Constantine (Con) Tsang here! This will be our first team blog for the 2015-2015 season, reporting from a cloudy Christchurch, NZ. Most of the team members are together now, except for Johnny and Brian, our hardy mountaineers who are already on the ice getting our logistics...
2015 / 2016 Field Season
Hello everyone, I'm pretty sure the team made it to McMurdo yesterday based on the following email (slightly edited) I got.........
".........Welcome to McMurdo,
You are scheduled to attend a Field Support and Training (FS&T) Antarctic Field Safety course, Thursday, December 3. You need to be at the FS&T classroom...
Hi all, just sent a quick email to the field team wishing them luck as they try to fly south to McMurdo. Got an immediate response from Nina that says....."We're in the van heading there now! Looking forward to experiencing the majesty of the Herc...."
If all goes as planned...
Welcome to the 2015-2016 ANSMET field season, everybody! The field season is getting underway and accelerating down the tracks. John Schutt and Brian Rougeux are already in McMurdo getting our gear together, and the remainder of the field team are already on their way to Christchurch or...
Happy Thanksgiving ANSMET fans! I'm Nina and I'm testing out our blog before we head south. Here's what I look like according to this iPad (terrifying, so you know it's accurate).
With late-summer upon us we have selected the team for the 2015-16 ANSMET season. The team boasts four veterans and four newbies. Here it is.....
John Schutt- head mountaineer and veteran of ~35 ANSMET seasons.
Jim Karner- science lead from Case Western Reserve University and veteran of 7 seasons.
Brian Rougeux- second mountaineer and veteran...