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  Two messages were delivered to me from the field this afternoon- one in the form of an email from Robert Citron (via his sister Amy) and one more directly via voice from Jim Karner.   Let's start with Robert:  Greetings from the ANSMET Davis-Ward field camp! A lot happened the...

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Hi Everyone, I can neither confirm nor deny that the last two field party members made it into the field today-  but as yesterday's post declared,  no news should be presumed good news. I've got something else to share. Probably almost every reader of the ANSMET blog knows that in almost...

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Hi Everyone, Welcome to a "no news is good news" edition of the ANSMET blog.  Yesterday our second Basler flight went from McMurdo to Davis-Ward, delivering Erin, Robert and Lauren and a bunch of gear. I got several third-hand reports (from Jim and field team family members) that it all...

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The ANSMET team remains split between the Davis Ward field site and McMurdo Station. The skeleton crew who has successfully made it to the field (Daniela, Minako, and Brian) is currently searching for meteorites on foot and are flagging specimens as they go. Today they found 13 new meteorites out...

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Yesterday was an incredible day, as Minako and Daniela successfully took off on a Basler flight to the Davis Ward field site. We received a call from Brian at 7 pm (yesterday) confirming their safe arrival and expressing their excitement - asserting they were "jumping off the walls"! The...

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DANIELA AND MINAKO ARE ACTIVATED WITH THREE EXCLAMATION POINTS❗❗❗ woohoo from Erin.... Additional note from Ralph:  if the crew's duty day is long enough we might get lucky and get a couple of flights in.  The DW round trip is about a half day.   Everybody send your woohoos and other positive...

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Just like the movie Groundhog Day, we woke up (again) to the news that our team would not be flying today. The weather at McMurdo looks great, but there was a higher priority mission that needed the Basler to pull out a team working at the Kamb Ice Stream...

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This morning, after 20-30 minutes of anxious waiting to see if Daniela and Minako’s flight to Davis Ward would take off, we got the news: cancelled due to weather. We were disappointed because we’re ready to go collect some space rocks. Antarctica has its own plans sometimes. Daniela called John...

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Hi ANSMET enthusiasts!! We are so close to getting out to the field, but it is not happening today. We got news about flight cancelation last night due to the difficulty of getting the airstrip ready (technical & weather issues at DW). And it's a snow day in McMurdo...

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With the New Year the team is hoping to head out into the field this week!  Brian has already been in the field a couple days, along with Amelia from the BFC. News from the Davis-Ward field camp is good. Brian and Amelia have made progress digging out the...

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