{"id":2612,"date":"2016-12-03T21:19:53","date_gmt":"2016-12-04T02:19:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/caslabs.case.edu\/ansmet\/?p=2612"},"modified":"2016-12-15T20:06:47","modified_gmt":"2016-12-16T01:06:47","slug":"whole-lotta-shakedown-going-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/caslabs.case.edu\/ansmet\/2016\/12\/03\/whole-lotta-shakedown-going-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Whole lotta shakedown going on"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hi all, \u00a0a short post to let you know we’ve returned to McMurdo after our shakedown trip. \u00a0The baseline purpose of this trip is to try out the essential camping gear the ANSMET team needs; \u00a0the actual, individual tents, sleeping bags, snowmobiles, stoves, propane lines, booties….. \u00a0all of it. \u00a0And while some do just fine with inspection of their gear back home, or in the warm spaces of the BFC or Crary Lab, \u00a0we know that a true ovenight shakedown trip away from McMurdo is the best guarantee that things work. \u00a0 So that’s what we did. \u00a0We left McMurdo just before noon on Saturday and returned 24 hours later. \u00a0The itinerary this time wasn’t as deep in crevasse travel and rescue techniques as in the\u00a0past, \u00a0but the need for that has diminished over the last decade. Those were designed to mitigate a serious threat during long (sometimes days-long) \u00a0overland traverses, which are now mostly replaced with air travel. In addition, an expanded obligatory schedule of meetings and training in McMurdo encourages us to streamline our own schedule so that we don’t cut into our finite and somewhat inflexible summer field season.<\/p>\n

Here’s a few pics from the trip.<\/p>\n

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Heading straight at Mt Erebus, whose head is in the coulds. We had gorgeous weather the whole trip.<\/em><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

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Can you drive uphill and sidehill and then downhill? Let’s test that by visiting Castle Rock (Some of us were brave enough to climb to the top. Some of us were courageous enough the stay behind without them).<\/span><\/em><\/p><\/div>\n

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Last but not least, a short promotional statement- \u00a0I am giving the Sunday Science Lecture in McMurdo tonight, \u00a0entitled “To Protect or To Swerve: ANSMET and Planetary Defense”. \u00a0If you’re near building 155 tonight at 8 pm, \u00a0please stop by!<\/p>\n

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-posted by RPH in McMurdo<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hi all, \u00a0a short post to let you know we’ve returned to McMurdo after our shakedown trip. \u00a0The baseline purpose of this trip is to try out the essential camping gear the ANSMET team needs; \u00a0the actual, individual tents, sleeping bags, snowmobiles, stoves, propane lines, booties….. \u00a0all of it. \u00a0And while some do just fine with inspection of their gear back home, or in the warm spaces of the BFC or Crary Lab, \u00a0we know that a true ovenight shakedown trip away from McMurdo is the best guarantee that things work. \u00a0 So that’s what we did. \u00a0We left McMurdo just before noon on Saturday and returned 24 hours later. \u00a0<\/p>\n

Continue reading… Whole lotta shakedown going on<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":2613,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[15,1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/artscimedia.case.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/111\/2016\/12\/03211350\/CIMG0096-small.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/caslabs.case.edu\/ansmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2612"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/caslabs.case.edu\/ansmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/caslabs.case.edu\/ansmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caslabs.case.edu\/ansmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caslabs.case.edu\/ansmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2612"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/caslabs.case.edu\/ansmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2615,"href":"https:\/\/caslabs.case.edu\/ansmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2612\/revisions\/2615"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caslabs.case.edu\/ansmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/caslabs.case.edu\/ansmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caslabs.case.edu\/ansmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caslabs.case.edu\/ansmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}