College of Arts and Sciences

  Since the two-day storm earlier this week, we've been fortunate with the weather and been able to get in multiple full days of searching.  Yesterday and today, we continued searching the blue ice and (at the end of each sweep) the moraine at the edge of the ice. ...

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The last two days have been very much the same - fairly good weather (which means not too much wind), systematic searches and snowmobile issues. On the weather front, having little to no wind has been very welcome. It is much more pleasant to look for...

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  In our New Year's Eve post, we included a photo and posed the question, "Can you find the meteorite?" Well, this image -- with the circle around the meteorite -- shows the answer!  In this image, the meteorite is the one with the very dark outer layer, a 'fusion crust,'...

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After the last two tent days, due to cloudy skies, blowing snow, and sometimes white-out conditions, this morning's weather was bright and sunny with just a slight breeze.  We had to do a bit of shoveling or clearing away of the snow that had piled up around camp over...

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              Image Caption 1: Breakfast on a Tent Day…blueberry pancakes with maple syrup! I feel like Bill Murray. Well, not exactly Bill Murray, since not even my considerable hubris lets me think I am that funny, but I do feel a little like Phil Connors at least. I’ll wait a minute...

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Here’s a hypothetical question for people: “Who wants to spend 35 days living in a 9 foot by 9 foot area with (in many cases) a complete stranger?” Remember, by living, I mean sleeping, eating, cooking, recreating, and not showering or bathing in this area. You would be spending ...

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Happy New Year to everyone back home!! We celebrated the start of the year in fine style. We had the morning off to catch up on sleep after seeing the new year in last night. For many of us, the first day of 2015 meant a change of clothes...

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Happy New Year!  Given our location just west of the international date line, we get to be among the first on the planet to celebrate the arrival of 2015. On this particularly beautiful day, we took the opportunity to do some reconnaissance of the surrounding peaks.  This gave the newbies...

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  As much as I like to think I am clever, and to make these blogs funny (and informative), after two straight days of searching for 8+ hours in the wind and the cold, I’m mostly trying not to nod off and fall asleep in my one pot meal. Thus,...

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