Tomoko Arai, Recon team, 2nd January 2013, Szabo Bluff
Happy new year to all (^0^)v In contrast to the beautiful weather yesterday and the day before yesterday, it was snowy and windy today. Again, we stayed all day in the tent. Since we only have less than three weeks to...
2012 / 2013 Field Season
Mini Wadhwa, ANSMET Systematic Search Team, Larkman Nunatak, January 2, 2013
The beginning of the New Year is usually a time for reflection and making lists. Since we have a tent day today (see photo of the whiteout conditions in camp earlier today), this is exactly what I set out...
Katie Joy, Recon Team, 1st January 2013, Szabo Bluff
Happy New Year everyone! Hope that you are well and happy and that you saw the New Year in with good cheer. The recon team have had a glorious couple of days after the trials and bad weather of the previous two...
Marianne Mader, Systematic Team, Jan. 1, 2012 Larkman Icefield Camp, Beardmore Region, Antarctica
Happy New Year to all those at home! Yesterday, we enjoyed a New Year's Eve celebration by gathering in one tent and making pizzas in our camp stove (see photo)! What a treat! Today, we went out...
Tomoko Arai, Recon team, 30th December 2012, Szabo bluff
Today we moved to a new target site at last via the Twin Otter aircraft (see the picture). John and I left on the first flight and helped establish the new camp, whilst Joe and Katie stayed behind to clear up...
Katie Joy、Recon Team, 29th December 2012, Graves Icefield
Woohoo - today was the first day since the 19th December (when we moved to this field camp site) that we have had relatively calm winds, without driving snow. Finally the tents have stopped flapping, which brings some peace and quiet to camp life. Although we weren’t able to move to our new field...
Andrew Beck, December 29th, Larkman Nunatak
We collected 44 meteorites today, the most we have collected in a single day this year! Today's collection site was the same as the previous few days, the youngest in a sequence of end moraines at the base of Larkman Nunatak. A picture from...
Tom Sharp, Dec. 27
It was Christmas Eve for ANSMET G-058 and the wind was really blowing. You could hear the drifting snow hitting the side if the tent. I had trouble getting to sleep, listening to the constant sounds of small ice crystals impacting the tent next to my...
Tomoko Arai, Recon team, 28th December 2012, South Graves icefield
Unfortunately, we are still stuck in the wind storm here. We have been here for ten days and could only go out to meteorite search for just a total of several hours! We heard good news from the main team...
Katie Joy、Recon Team, 27th December 2012, Graves Icefields
Predictably today the katabatic wind is still blowing hard from the south at about 30-35 knots preventing us from moving campsite to a new icefield, and once again we have been tentbound. It is incredibly frustrating to not be productive, but we have been occupying ourselves sleeping, eating (lots of eating) and reading...