College of Arts and Sciences

Today, on January 5, we were all finally together in the field, we were all well, and we couldn't go out and work, so we had Christmas! We cooked some tasty pizzas using the ingredients we had on hand, since only about half of our food boxes are out...

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Today was another exciting day (Am I saying that every day perhaps?..). We didn't get any flight in, so we work hard all day long. In the morning, we went out to old camp site (1996) where old fuel drums were buried. We dig those drums and brought...

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Here's one more pic from today, we're just so happy to be all together again!

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Today was another exciting day. In the morning, it was still gray here. As we expected, we got weather delay. After a couple hours of strong wind, it became completely blue sky! Then shortly after lunch, twin otter showed up! Yes, Jim and Alex finally made...

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It was gray here today, which always makes it a little spooky and hard to see what you're walking or driving over. That's right - driving - we got onto the skidoos today and went for a ride! We rode out to an old Elephant Moraine camp cache to...

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Happy New Year from the field! We went out to do more foot search today. We walked "Meteorite City" area and found 7 more meteorites. So beautiful walking on blue ice area (picture attached). Cracks, volcano ash band, a lot of interesting texture on ice and snow... So happy...

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We are just an hour and a half shy of 2017, which is way ahead of most of you, so Happy New Year from the field! We had a fun and productive day of foot searching on the blue ice near camp, which you vets will know is pretty...

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Having just arrived in the field yesterday and tentatively wandering out onto the vast, Antarctic plateau, I felt the familiar mix of being right at home among the hard, glistening firn, the translucent blue ice, and the broad, flat vistas, and also of feeling distinctly that I am a...

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