2016 / 2017 Field Season – Page 6 – ANSMET, The Antarctic Search for Meteorites

Bubbles the Seal Princess

December 15, 2016

(Please note: the intended audience for this blog is in the 3rd grade; this narrative takes great liberties with the literal truth and absolutely no treaty violations occurred). My daughter Scout has asked repeatedly that I bring her home a seal from Antarctica. She thinks they're cuddly and the word "cute"...

Following the Duck’s footsteps…

January 25, 2017

Following the Nov-20 blog posted by Duck I went for a walk to the Observation Hill and here are some pictures taken on the way. One third into the hike I saw the site where a 1.75 MW nuclear reactor operated since 1962 for about 10 years. It used...

The waiting game and an Antarctic sight I had never seen before

December 15, 2016

Not a whole lot of stuff going on today for the ANSMET team. We have all of our gear in the cargo system as of lunch time Wednesday. Now it is just a matter of waiting... This is the Antarctic version of the military’s “Hurry up...

The Coziness of McMurdo

December 15, 2016

The Coziness of McMurdo Hi everyone! Jani here. Were in McMurdo, having just finished a satisfying few days of assembling all our gear and getting it into the system, ready for flight out to our field locations. We bring a lot of gear with us, so this takes a...

Meteorite Warriors of Elephant Moraine return!

December 15, 2016

(The events described in this blog occurred between 28 Nov. and 5 Dec. This will be a long post. Due to technological issues - or operator error, I am not going to specify which – I was unable to post from the field. That is all...

Flurries of activity

December 15, 2016

With the entire field team here, today was a flurry of activity. And speaking of flurries, it's been snowing all day. McMurdo is pretty with a little bit of fresh snow around, but this weather has shut down the town, at least in terms of flying. But we...

The Boys are Back

December 5, 2016

The final push toward our main season began today as another McMurdo work week spins up. Our day started with discussing frozen food choices over breakfast, and was followed by "core" training for some of the group. Meanwhile Brian and I took care of other miscellaneous chores, always with our eye...

elephant moraine update

December 15, 2016

John and Duck are on the schedule to fly back to McMurdo tomorrow with 41 meteorites in tow. As always, they aren't really flying until they've flown- will provide a fuller story tomorrow evening. -posted by rph in McMurdo

Whole lotta shakedown going on

December 15, 2016

Hi all, a short post to let you know we've returned to McMurdo after our shakedown trip. The baseline purpose of this trip is to try out the essential camping gear the ANSMET team needs; the actual, individual tents, sleeping bags, snowmobiles, stoves, propane lines, booties..... all of it....

Training day

December 2, 2016

Our schedule for today is quite full; we're trying to take care of tasks more suitable for two days than one. The day began as it almost always does for ANSMET in McMurdo, with the group gathering for breakfast about 7:15 to confirm the day's plans. Here's how...

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