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Half way home

December 29, 2014

Ralph here, in Sydney airport and still awake. For those of you who care, I thought I'd ipdate you on my personal progress home in spite of Sydney Airport's less-than-accommodating internet speeds. it's about 9:40 am local, 11:40 my time (christchurch time) and I've got about 5 and...

a full day sweeping

December 29, 2014

a full day sweeping

December 29, 2014

We had nice weather today -- maybe -15 degrees C (or 0 F) with relatively light winds and sun -- and took advantage of it to have our second full day in the field. We spent the day continuing our sweeping of the blue...

Christmas and Boxing Day Blogs

December 29, 2014

Christmas: The day dawned clear windy and cold (not exactly a surprise for Antarctica). Most of the team went for a recon drive over to a new ice field looking for Christmas Presents of the meteorite variety. Despite the unsearched area, pickings were slim, with only 5 meteorites bagged....

Sweep the leg!

December 28, 2014

Now, a quote from Karate Kid may seem like an odd subject line for a blog about correcting meteorites. Also, I realize that past blogs from me have a history of being slightly wanderingy (I’ve decided that this is in fact a word), but stay with me and this...

a full half day

December 27, 2014

The winds were strong (~25 kts) again this morning, which caused us to stay in our tents until after lunch. And unfortunately, due to the turbulence aloft, Ralph's scheduled pull-out flight was canceled. Ralph's plans were to only be in the field for the first portion of the trip,...

Superheros and Tent Days

December 27, 2014

degrees Celsius...that would be 35 mph and -31 Fahrenheit in civilized units (I had to use the original units because it is a Belgian who let me use her weather station...and she had demands). The wind is still blowing along at a pretty good clip as we try...

Christmas Eve at Davis-Ward

December 24, 2014

Christmas Eve was a productive day here at Davis-Ward. Although the conditions were somewhat marginal in the morning, the last 2.5 days in our tents provided extra motivation for braving the winds and cloudy conditions. Even with those drawbacks -- the poor lighting makes it harder to distinguish meteorites...

our first tent day

December 22, 2014

The weather that brought our great first morning of meteorite-collecting to a halt after lunch yesterday continued today. Blowing snow kept us inside all day, giving us our first full tent day. I haven't yet gotten the wind speed measured, but the temperature is in the range of -20...

Hail, Hail, the Gang’s All Here

December 21, 2014

Our work day began early with a Twin Otter plane buzzing our tents at 8:15 in the morning - this was before we expected it to arrive. We hustled out to meet it and went to work unloading its cargo. We are getting good with this....

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