Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 11/30/2007 - 22:30
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Antarctic Ice Sheet Studies

Hey Mr. Gillette,
What kinds of food do you eat in Antarctica?  Also, how much of it do you eat everyday?  How is it, where you're staying?  Is where you stay, a small space?  Hope you're doing well.

-Cindy hr 7

Tue, 12/04/2007 - 23:55

Brandon Gillette

Hello Cindy~Right now while we're in McMurdo there is a full service cafeteria.  Several different main dishes, usually some kind of salad dish, veggies, bread, deserts, including soft serve!  The food is really quite good!  Once we get to WAIS Divide, things shouldn't change too much, though there will be a smaller number of people in the camp itself.
As for sleeping, right now we're in dorm rooms.  They're probably not much bigger than your bedroom, except we have 6 people and two 40-pound bags of luggage per person.  It's kind of tight quarters but we don't really do much more there than sleep anyway.  That also will change once we get into the field at WAIS.  Out there we will be sleeping in 2-person Scott tents.  You can see pictures of those in the photo gallery.
Cheers,~Gillette