{"id":786,"date":"2014-01-19T14:35:28","date_gmt":"2014-01-19T14:35:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artscilabs.case.edu\/ansmet\/?p=786"},"modified":"2014-10-06T18:05:21","modified_gmt":"2014-10-06T18:05:21","slug":"more-end-of-season-details","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/caslabs.case.edu\/ansmet\/2014\/01\/19\/more-end-of-season-details\/","title":{"rendered":"More end of season details, and too good to be true…."},"content":{"rendered":"

A few posts ago I updated you on end of season plans. \u00a0 I had the opportunity to talk to both Jim and John extensively last night, and while the conversation was wide-ranging (everything from who’s going to win the football games tonight to where we’re staying at March’s Lunar and Planetary Science Conference), \u00a0here’s the key new point. \u00a0 The team is indeed going to try and pull out from Miller Range via the Basler aircraft, \u00a0but they’re doing so without staging through CTAM<\/span> as an intermediate step. \u00a0 It’ll take two or three very full days to get this done, \u00a0and the team has to spend a lot of hours immediately grooming a skiway at their Miller Range campsite; \u00a0but it should make the transition a little faster than I described earlier.<\/p>\n

One other note with a humorous slant. \u00a0Right now the initial plan is for Jani, Barb, Manavi and Morgan to be the first to fly home. For obvious reasons, they view this as a product of a rather obvious gender bias. \u00a0Rumor has it they are considering a protest of some kind.<\/p>\n

Now I won’t second guess the field team leader’s decisions (I’m 13,000 km away). \u00a0Let’s just say there is always a LOT more to the story. \u00a0Every year we try to have about have the party go home early and the other stay out to the end, \u00a0so the cargo train has folks on both ends, pushing and pulling in a figurative sense. \u00a0And we like to have ANSMET vets on both ends as well who know how to deal with things. \u00a0 Then there’s what’s waiting back in the civilized world; \u00a0Most of the team is volunteers who need to get back to the real lives they put on hold for two months or more. \u00a0Barb and Jani, \u00a0for example, are both senior scientists that have been out in the field since early December, and have a huge backlog of space stuff to deal with. \u00a0Manavi left her job in Hawai’i andhas a new job waiting for her at U of Chicago she needs to start, \u00a0Morgan is a newlywed with a husband waiting and needs to write a dissertation (maybe not in that order)…… \u00a0there are lots of reasons behind the decisions on who goes back to civilization first, \u00a0and John and Jim haven’t been seriously gender-biased in my 30 years of experience with them both.<\/p>\n

My only comment is this; \u00a0 Are they aware they just set up the absolutely perfect Antarctic horror movie scenario? \u00a0 C’mon, it’s too good to be just chance…….<\/p>\n

“You women go ahead first; \u00a0us men will stay back here and take care of things…….”<\/p>\n

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-posted by rph<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A few posts ago I updated you on end of season plans. \u00a0 I had the opportunity to talk to both Jim and John extensively last night, and while the conversation was wide-ranging (everything from who’s going to win the football games tonight to where we’re staying at March’s Lunar and Planetary Science Conference), \u00a0here’s the key new point. \u00a0 The team is indeed going to try and pull out from Miller Range via the Basler aircraft, \u00a0but they’re doing so without staging through CTAM as an intermediate step. \u00a0 It’ll take two or three very full days to get this done, \u00a0and the team has to spend a lot of hours immediately grooming a skiway at their Miller Range campsite; \u00a0<\/p>\n

Continue reading… More end of season details, and too good to be true….<\/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":[7,1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/caslabs.case.edu\/ansmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786"}],"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=786"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/caslabs.case.edu\/ansmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1234,"href":"https:\/\/caslabs.case.edu\/ansmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786\/revisions\/1234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/caslabs.case.edu\/ansmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caslabs.case.edu\/ansmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caslabs.case.edu\/ansmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}