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Jim received this email  earlier today (the day before the team departs for Antarctica): " Hi Jim, NSF has finished our review of the ANSMET procedures for documentation, collection, and curation of meteorites for the 2023-2024 season and found them to be in compliance with the regulations in 45 C.F.R. part...

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Hi everyone,   another update from Brian in McMurdo..... "Made it to McM yesterday and am getting settled in. Because it's Thanksgiving weekend I haven't been able to secure a meeting with fixed wing, but word on the street makes it sound like they are already behind schedule and backed...

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John, Jim and I received the following progress report from Brian yesterday, via email. "Hey Guys, Made it down to CHC and am scheduled to fly South tomorrow morning at 9am.  A remarkably civilized time, which is nice. The CDC process was pretty easy, with the only difference this year being...

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This is my dog Zion.  If you haven't met him, you might assume he's a labrador retriever of the Canis Familaris species. But spend 10 minutes with him and you'll figure out he's a slightly different creature;  Canis Ballhounder.   On this very frosty morning in northeast Ohio he...

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There's no single word in English (that I can find) describing a moment when something tenuous and immaterial becomes reality;  but I need one, since that's what happened last weekend.   ANSMET leadership and the 2023-2024 field team gathered in Cleveland for this year's Bootcamp, which ran from mid-day...

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