Hello again to anyone who has taken the time to read my journal posts and checked out photos.
If you are counting, it takes three solid days of flying to get to and from Antarctica from Arizona.…
For anyone who might still be checking I am back at home and readjusting to life in Flagstaff,AZ.
I am in the process of composing a reflection piece that I intend to post as soon as it is finished…
In the lab
I am a soil microbiologist. A microbiologist studies very small (micro) organisms. Soil is full of them; there could be more than a billion microorganisms in a thimble full of soil but…
Today was another really nice day in this part of Antarctica. We had good visibility and almost no wind, great for flying.
Clear skies
Our pilot was very gracious and showed us around to a couple…
Our team has left the field and returned to McMurdo to process soils and prepare for our next trip back to Lake Hoare.
Looking at the calendar we are now under the two week mark. This realization…
Victory
Not every day in Antarctica is a winning day. Our team had been shut out by cloudy and windy conditions that kept flights on the ground. We have had those same conditions keep us from…
Weather Set Back
We had great weather for our first week in Antarctica. We should have known it would not all come so easy. Even though McMurdo is experiencing high temps and melting snow and ice,…
Lake Hoare Day 1
For our first full day at Lake Hoare we made the most of it and set out to begin a new experiment. We are attempting to answer the question of how soil microbial communities vary in…
We arrived at Lake Hoare this morning. The flight was about 50 kilometers west of McMurdo over the sea ice that formed over the winter. Trapped within the sea ice were icebergs that had broken off…
Our team of three should be heading out to the Lake Hoare field station tomorrow.
I will try to keep the posts on schedule but the internet is not as reliable in this area. It might also mean that…
