Leaving Palmer station in the windy and cold darkness on the morning of June 15th was one of the most surreal experiences I have ever had. We were the last people that the remaining 18 persons left…
One of the things that has amazed me the most about the Antarctic Ocean is the way ice forms. The Inuit have 50 different names for ice and snow and I can now truly understand why. Ocean water…
From left to right: CJ, Keith, Michelle, Andrews, Sabrina, Maggie and Chuck.
Today is a tough day to come to grips with, we leave Antarctica tomorrow and it is hard for me to believe this…
KC Bierlich, a Doctoral student at Duke University, and Post Doc Michelle Shero, who works with KC at Duke’s marine lab in Beaufort North Carolina, are in Antarctica to study whales. KC’s…
I had a great opportunity to travel on the Laurence M. Gould and accompany a research team from Duke University. The day started out on the bridge of the ship with everyone looking for whales. When…
Even though the science can sometimes last well into the evenings, we do have a bit of free time usually after dinner ends at 6:30pm. With sunset coming to these parts around 3:30pm, there is not…
It’s a sad day here at Palmer Station, as 18 of us meet in the galley at 0800 hours for our redeployment meeting, which means filling out paper work about our departure from the station. I cannot…
Marine sciences are not the only source of science here at Palmer Station; we have a mysterious building on campus referred to as the TERRALAB. I ventured up to that building today to talk with Dr.…
It is not all about science here at Palmer Station, and that's because it is the smallest station that the United States mans in Antarctica, only 44 persons max. McMurdo has over 1000 people and…
Towering giants dot the landscape around Palmer Station; they are beautiful to look at but rather saddening to think about why so many icebergs are out in the boating area.
The Sydney Opera House…
Follow that krill! Or where have all the penguins gone? All ecosystems rely on producers for all the energy that will flow through each trophic level.
Antarctic food web is all reliant on…
As I mentioned in yesterday’s blog, the main purpose of study for the icefish is not what happens after the dissection, but the spawning that takes place before the dissection. On the last fishing…
