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I'm writing this while I'm on board the C-17 of the 62d Airlift Wing (62 AW) of the United States Air Force stationed at Joint Base Lewis–McChord, Washington. They are part of Operation Deep Freeze which is an ongoing mission to transport personnel and equipment related to the activities of the

After a long journey beginning at 6:00pm September 30th from Denver flying across the Pacific Ocean from Los Angeles — I met the team during a short layover in Sydney for the first time in person (a breakdown of their respective bios will be coming soon) and we headed over to Christchurch landing

Another Thank You In my haste to post yesterday's journal about the PolarConnect Event, I forgot to say a special THANK YOU to our Network Administrators Chris Linden and Valerie Warner for their help in making sure that I had as much connectivity as possible during the event. ##Science Update It

Hitching a ride on a C-17 Globemaster III is unlike any plane flight I've ever taken. While it doesn't look much larger than a conventional airliner from the outside, the interior is positively cavernous. Rows and rows of seats fill the forward portion of the cargo hold while our baggage and

Antarctica is an entire continent set aside for the peaceful pursuit of science by way of an international treaty that is currently signed by over fifty nations. It belongs to no nation; it's wildlife and resources are preserved in the name of future generations of all nations. While treaty

This post is long overdue – at least a month! I didn’t have much time to relax after my expedition, as school had already started - the journal below is a quick recap of our last two days of harvesting. ##The Harvest: 8 Mile Lake## The crux of this experiment is to see where Nitrogen ends up in

Science Update The science plan for the day has been temporarily placed on hold due to thick ice. As we exited the Bismark Strait, we experienced thicker ice than expected. The original plan was to deploy a trace metal CTD cast at 0700. The plan then shifted to after lunch. We currently have an

The distribution of cosmic rays on the surface of the Earth is not uniform. So we want to study cosmic rays in a number of locations if we want to understand them. There are many facilities over the globe that study cosmic rays. However, the locations near the poles are particularly important

PolarConnect - TOMORROW! Join me on Monday, October 3rd @ 1:30 EST for a live presentation from Antarctica! Dr. Bethany Jenkins and I will be talking about life aboard the RVIB Palmer and this collaborative research project. Register here.