Today is the day! – for the first half of our team, anyway. Four of us are scheduled for the 1300 flight this afternoon to Beardmore (or CTAM, if you are keeping track previous blogs), from which we’ll then be flown to our camp. So...
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One of the key historical sites in Antarctica is Robert Falcon Scott’s Discovery Hut, located by McMurdo Sound at Hut Point, which was built by Scott’s Discovery 1903-1907 Discovery Expedition. The hut is just a short walk away from McMurdo, along one of the roads leading out of...
This is a big hello for my daughter Scout in Mrs. Trovato's 1st grade class and all the kids attending Westwood Elementary in Russell, Ohio, where my sons Tucker and Eli also went to school. We're very busy getting ready to hunt for meteorites here in Antarctica, but that also means...
We've all experienced the "hurry up and wait" mode of travel, and that's an apt description for where ANSMET stands right now. All of our cargo is properly labelled and listed and ready to go on airplanes, so now we wait for our turn to fly. Scheduling aircraft...
The team had a day off today. If all had gone according to the best case schedule, we would have had our first group deploy to the transition area tomorrow. But, as it often happens here, we have been caught by weather delays. A runway grooming team was supposed...
Greetings from south of you! I can say with almost absolute certainty that this statement is true for approximately 0.000014286% of the people on Earth…and most of those folks don’t have internet, and therefore don’t really exist in this day and age. For those of you wondering, yes, I...
The first of our team is due to deploy on Friday to CTAM (Central Trans-Antarctic Mountains), and we’re excited to get out there! Friday is actually one day later than originally scheduled, due to delays in getting the groomers out to CTAM to prepare ...
It was – literally – another packed day. We spent the day ‘pulling’ and packing up our food for the next 6 weeks. Fortunately, we each had two key aids in this daunting task: a comprehensive food list of the available items we could choose from, and...
View of Mount Erebus from Castle Rock. -posted by Shannon, Devon, Ryan and Ralph
A short post, we're testing our Iridium blog posting system. Here are most of our scientists enjoying the views, during a break in skidoo driving training. From left to right: Ryan Zeigler, Devon Burr, Christine Floss, Vinciane DeBaille, and Shannon Walker