After making rather merry during our Christmas celebrations last night, our spirits were higher than the wind, so we got out and searched all day today. A storm was pushing in from the east, over the Ross Ice Shelf, and this competed with the southern katabatic winds for control...
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Just as Shackleton was tent bound more than 100 years ago on this day due to weather, so are we. Last night's dreams were influenced by strong katabatic winds that find our tents minor obstacles to be trifled with and whipped about in a frenzy of creaks, slaps, and...
We've now had three days searching, finding, and collecting meteorites. We have seven more from this afternoon, and found several others this morning in our "home" moraine. Today was windy, around 15-20 mph, which made it very cold and hard to collect the meteorites. But we persevere because we...
Welcome to class, BYU geology and Mr. Rad's Bonneville 6th grade! Can you find the crevasse in this picture? Why isn't it a gaping hole? Why do you think we tried not to walk on it anyway? How big is it, and which direction are the stresses oriented? Why...
Greetings to all ANSMET Followers,
There are good days and then there are GREAT DAYS, this was the latter. ANSMETTeam 2013-14 spent the entire day "Hunting Meteorites" on the Big Ice today. Thereis no way to fully describe the boundless joy that surges forth as one navigates on the blue...
This is a quick note, written on a full lunch belly, prior to heading out to the moraine with ALL EIGHT of the ANSMET crew to collect our first meteorites! The rest of our group arrived yesterday in a flurry of five Twin Otter flights (those Kenn Borek pilots...
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Hello Ralph-
Just wanted to let you know that I spoke with Johnny Schutt tonight, and ALL members of G-058 are now happily camping together at South Miller Range. They had a long, successful day moving from CTAM. They were very much looking forward...
Hi all, I didn't hear from the ANSMET folks at Miller Range or CTAM directly, but I did hear from my McMurdo colleagues. The four ANSMET folks at CTAM (Jim, Jani, Manavi and Alex) spent the night there. They are scheduled to start Twin Otter flights up to...
Hi all, a little third-hand news courtesy of friends in McMurdo. The four ANSMET people who had been stranded for so long in McMurdo made it to CTAM late yesterday after one of the wierdest, longest delays in our 35+ year history of field work. They...