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Penguins, Playlists and Pics

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIQLaUy4k_E] Video from Robin Herzig, USAP contractor While we were in Davis Ward, penguins descended upon McMurdo. This is a video of the herd leaving town!    After being told about this by multiple people when we returned to McMurdo, we were able to find evidence of this on the...

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Days of Delays

I guess we shouldn’t be that surprised by now that we are still in McMurdo. A good thing we have had lots of practice in waiting, as Emilie put it earlier. Our first delay on the 31st was due to snowy weather in McMurdo. The C-17 didn’t even take...

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Back to Christchurch

Cindy, Nicole, Marc and I made it back to Christchurch! Yesterday, we had breakfast at 6 am and by 6:30 we were transported to the airfield (look at how huge our red transport vehicle is!). It took about 45 minutes to travel a few miles to the Phoenix landing/take-off...

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Together Again!

  The team is together again in McMurdo! Lauren, Alex, Brian, and Johnny arrived this afternoon and took the remainder of camp gear with them. We are enjoying our last night together. Cindy, Nicole, Marc, and I have a long day tomorrow traveling to Christchurch, New Zealand. Lauren and Alex...

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Delayed

We are so good at waiting. From delays getting to Antarctica from New Zealand, then to Davis-Ward from McMurdo, and now back to McMurdo, we are waiting experts. Weather in McMurdo caused the flight this morning to be cancelled, so the schedule should just shift day-by-day until the weather...

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Final Days

We are finished with meteorite hunting here at Davis Ward and have been packing up camp. A small twin otter plane stopped here this morning to fly about 800 pounds worth of stuff to McMurdo. I, along with Cindy, Nicole and Marc are scheduled to hop on a flight...

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Cooking

It’s another tent day; it is cold and far too windy to be able to work outside. Tent days afford one the opportunity to sit in a small enclosed area, converse with your tent-mate, read long novels, and cook. For me, it is the opportunity to have a hot...

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