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Celebrating the Solstice

December 23, 2019

Yesterday was clear, the sun was bright and high in the sky - the longest day of the austral summer. Our McMurdo-based team spent the day finishing up training (Marc), volunteering in the kitchen for the upcoming holiday celebrations (Emilie, Lauren, Nicole and Cindy), finalizing the cargo numbers (Brian),...

50 Years Ago Today

December 22, 2019

The 2019-2020 ANSMET field season corresponds to several anniversaries that we find significant, but none more important than today. Fifty years ago, on December 21, 1969, Renji Naruse of the 10th Japanese Antarctic Research Expedition (JARE-10) was one of several glaciologists embedding a network of survey stations in the...

Cheese is the glue that holds McMurdo together

December 23, 2019

McMurdo Update Volunteers are everywhere in McMurdo; shuttle drivers, dishwashers, exercise class instructors, etc. Today, we volunteered to contribute to the wonderful McMurdo community. Lauren and Emilie worked in the salad kitchen slicing 50 blocks of cheese and cubing 134 apples. When a kitchen worker saw us slicing, he commented...

Marc, the good luck charm

December 20, 2019

We are delighted to welcome Marc to McMurdo! He was not delayed at all in New Zealand (only 2 days there), arrived on the continent last night and immediately began training. Meanwhile, we have finished our training and final cargo preparations and are now waiting to deploy to the...

Updates for Wednesday, 18 Dec.

December 18, 2019

Hi everyone. I've got a little bit of information for you after some emails exchanged between Marc Caffee in Christchurch, Jim Karner and John Schutt in McMurdo, and myself. Marc should be flying down to McMurdo right now aboard a New Zealand C-130; earlier this morning he was...

A note from Marc Caffee (in Christchurch, en route to McMurdo)

December 17, 2019

This is my second trip to Antarctica with ANSMET. So while I’m really looking forward to joining my colleagues and experiencing “cold” and couldn’t keep myself from noticing what goes on behind the scenes. It started at O’Hare. On my flight we’re at least six folks going to Antarctica:...

Shakedown: First post from the field

December 16, 2019

Today we are practicing all the skills we’ll need out in Davis-Ward! Yesterday we gathered most of our gear and drove it down to an area close to Scott base (about a 10 minute drive from McMurdo base). After breakfast today, we spent 20 minutes piling on all our...

Two quick updates, one from Emilie and Lauren, and one from Jim.

December 14, 2019

The team made it to Antarctica! We've been busy with training and learning the ropes here at McMurdo base. (editor's note- McMurdo Station, not "base". Jeesh, such newbies.) Johnny and Brian are glad to finally have us here. They've planned a jam-packed week for us so we can try to...

Updates for 13 Dec 2019

December 13, 2019

A few quick updates this morning: -Yesterday afternoon John reported that Jim, Cindy, Lauren, Emilie Nicole and Alex were on the plane flying south as of about 4 pm thursday, so barring unforeseen circumstances they made it to Antarctica late last night our time. The first hours in Antarctica are...

Getting to Antarctica One Way or Another

December 12, 2019

I'm sure these delay posts are getting old, but we're enduring another 24-hour flight delay. The weather looks good in McMurdo tomorrow, so the team is staying hopeful. While we're staying patient, though, we decided it would be worth a try to see how far we could travel from New...

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