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Icy at Heart## It's been a full 30 days since I got back from my adventure! Time sure does fly, and yet, I missed being on the ice nearly every single day. And now all I want to do is share this experience with my community and my audience of future scientists. Last week, I had my first Jargie

Slow Going We plan our days around waypoints - the locations where the ship pauses to allow for data to be collected. We have stopped at waypoints for the deployment of the floats and for the CTD (Conductivity and Temperature with Depth) sampling, and will soon be arriving at waypoints for taking

A Well-Fed Crew is a Happy Crew. I was feeling groggy and looking bleary-eyed when I walked into the lab at 11:30pm for the start of my shift and discovered a small group of people staring at a giant TV that displayed the score of the Super Bowl. Matt, our IT wizard, figured out how to get an

Into the Ice Even the seasoned Antarctic researchers were excited to see the first iceberg float by in the distance on January 31. And it seemed like another big event was happening around 10:00am on February 1 when a crowd of people gathered in the bridge to see multiple icebergs dotting the

All About the Research Vessel/Icebreaker Nathaniel B. Palmer I've been a resident of the Research Vessel/Icebreaker Nathaniel B. Palmer for a week now, and I think I finally know the way get from Point A to Point B anywhere on the main deck and 01 floor which requires having to push open the

Yesterday, we collected our second set of CTD (Conductivity, Temperature, Depth profile) data and dropped another float in the water that will immediately begin the cycle of diving and resurfacing for the SOCCOM (Southern Ocean Carbon & Climate Observations & Modeling) project. However, all of this

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This was in the yesterday's New York Times daily news summary. I hope some of you saw the larger article that appeared in the real world version of the paper.

The Cast of Characters There are 59 people on the ship - some of whom I get to work with every day, and some I might only cross paths with once or twice. Because we all work on watches or set times during the day, we don't always see the members of the team whose sleep and work schedules don