Rise and shine DOM team! It is 4:00 in the morning at Lake Fryxell Camp. Time for us to take a half-hour walk down the frozen Lake to the Canada Stream to collect stream data, and four forty-five…
Let me give you a little tour of my Lake Fryxell home. All are semi-permanent to reduce the camp's impact on the environment. There are six semi-permanent structures at Lake Fryxell; a power shack…
Let me introduce you to some of the equipment the DOM team uses while in the field to help us understand the make-up of the Dry Valley streams and to aid us in the collection of bacteria and DOM.…
Take a look at almost any map of Antarctica that has place names on it and you will find McMurdo Station on Ross Island, but it is a little more difficult to locate the site of our field camp on the…
The DOM lab in the Crary Science Building at McMurdo is organized, tidy, and ready to help the team work on our experiments. Our food and supplies for the field are packed and ready to load onto the…
I am still pinching myself in disbelief that I am even in Antarctica! Yesterday, had I actually started pinching, I would have arms that were completely black and blue by this morning, because my "oh…
Mike has a dog that is almost as cool as my sweet pooch Lucy is. Hank looks so proper while lounging on the couch with his paws crossed, is comfortable sitting on a three-legged stool, and even…
Collin is another great member of the DOM team. He is a graduate student in Yo Chin's lab at Ohio State University, an avid soccer player, and has such a dry sense of humor that he keeps the rest of…
Time zones, different days, and the need for two-day weekend had everyone at McMurdo Station celebrating Thanksgiving for the last three days. "Happy Thanksgiving" greetings were shouted from person…
Please say "hello" to Heidi, one of the two graduate students on the DOM team. Heidi is just starting her graduate program in Dr. Christine Foreman's lab at Montana State University. It is very…
I have shown you photos and mentioned the other people in my team quite often over the last week, but have not given them a chance to give their own introduction. So, this video interview with…
For just a taste of Happy Camper School, please watch and enjoy this video. http:// Happy Camper School introduced me to much more than just how to survive in Antarctica. There were many…