{"id":438,"date":"2013-11-25T20:01:00","date_gmt":"2013-11-25T20:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artscilabs.case.edu\/ansmet\/?p=438"},"modified":"2014-11-12T16:47:31","modified_gmt":"2014-11-12T21:47:31","slug":"the-2013-14-season-revised","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/caslabs.case.edu\/ansmet\/2013\/11\/25\/the-2013-14-season-revised\/","title":{"rendered":"The 2013-14 season,  revised"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_440\" style=\"width: 375px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artscimedia.case.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/111\/2013\/11\/14205022\/john-in-first-class.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-440\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-440 size-full\" title=\"john in first class\" src=\"https:\/\/artscimedia.case.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/111\/2013\/11\/14205022\/john-in-first-class.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"365\" height=\"478\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artscimedia.case.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/111\/2013\/11\/14205022\/john-in-first-class.jpg 365w, https:\/\/artscimedia.case.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/111\/2013\/11\/14205022\/john-in-first-class-229x300.jpg 229w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 365px) 100vw, 365px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-440\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">John Schutt, First Class<\/p><\/div>\n<p>As I write this, \u00a0John and Jim should be waking up on their first day in McMurdo, Antarctica. \u00a0 The rest of the team is gearing up for the same trip themselves, with most people leaving the US the day after Thanksgiving.<\/p>\n<p>In early October we published a preview of the coming ANSMET season, unsure how the government shutdown might affect us. \u00a0The shutdown ended about a week later, and it took about 3 more weeks of negotiations with NSF and their Antarctic contractor ASC to create a new plan. \u00a0Our goal was to preserve as much time on the ice and as many people in the field party as possible, while NSF and ASC needed to reduce impact on McMurdo and a budget already hit by the sequester (which hasn&#8217;t gone away).<\/p>\n<p>In the end our season plans didn&#8217;t change too much. \u00a0We&#8217;re still heading to the Miller Range, with the following changes.<\/p>\n<p>-Our season starts as scheduled, \u00a0but the preseason preparations in McMurdo (led by John with one other helper) is reduced in length (and increased in intensity).<\/p>\n<p>-We&#8217;ve removed the early season work at the north end of the Miller Range from our plans to reduce the number of flights needed.<\/p>\n<p>-Our season ends about 10 days early, with a nominal date of 11 Jan for pick-up from the field.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Last but not least, I&#8217;m staying home. \u00a0 \u00a0I had planned to go with John to McMurdo for preseason prep work and then out with the team for the first two weeks of fieldwork. \u00a0That&#8217;s my normal routine, helping with the preseason prep, the training, initial deployment, and transition to the fieldwork. But Jim is more than capable of that stuff, and my staying home turned out to reduce the number of flights needed and population in mcmurdo enough so that NSF didn&#8217;t press for further reductions (initially they had wanted us to drop to 6 field party members).<\/p>\n<p>So there you have it, \u00a0the 2013-2014 ANSMET field season, plan B.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>-Ralph Harvey, \u00a0from Case Western Reserve University<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I write this, \u00a0John and Jim should be waking up on their first day in McMurdo, Antarctica. \u00a0 The rest of the team is gearing up for the same trip themselves, with most people leaving the US the day after Thanksgiving.<\/p>\n<p>In early October we published a preview of the coming ANSMET season, unsure how the government shutdown might affect us. \u00a0The shutdown ended about a week later, and it took about 3 more weeks of negotiations with NSF and their Antarctic contractor ASC to create a new plan. \u00a0Our goal was to preserve as much time on the ice and as many people in the field party as possible,<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/caslabs.case.edu\/ansmet\/2013\/11\/25\/the-2013-14-season-revised\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading&#8230; <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The 2013-14 season,  revised<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[6,7,1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/caslabs.case.edu\/ansmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438"}],"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\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caslabs.case.edu\/ansmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/caslabs.case.edu\/ansmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1480,"href":"https:\/\/caslabs.case.edu\/ansmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438\/revisions\/1480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/caslabs.case.edu\/ansmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caslabs.case.edu\/ansmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caslabs.case.edu\/ansmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}