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Southern Tip## It snowed about 2 inches last night and was cloudy this morning, but the flight crew deemed the weather good enough for flying today. But as I would learn, the small amount of snow would slow us down tremendously. As usual I arrived on board by 7:30 am, an hour earlier than we

The Nussuaq Peninsula## Today we headed north and a bit west of Kanger to the Nussuaq Peninsula, a place OIB has not ever visited. The reason for going here is that there are small ice caps in the area and small pieces of ice respond faster to a warmer climate than do larger ones. The scientists

I worked in the yard on Saturday as it was a beautiful spring day, and it is the time of year when I have to start readying the garden for summer vegetables. One of my main tasks each spring is to harvest our compost bins, and get the fresh organic material tilled into our planter. This is a task

Astronomy Night## I had a wonderful time as a guest teacher for an evening astronomy class at Georgia Gwinnett College. Thank you, Georgia Gwinnett for having me and giving me the opportunity to talk about one of my favorite topics- our solar system! The lesson focus was on the gas giants, Jupiter

Aborted Flight## For today's flight we headed south and then east across the ice cap to the eastern shore. Unfortunately, cloud cover on the east side kept us from getting views of the spectacular SE coast. We did fly over one on the abandoned DEW (Distant Early Warning) radars. These remote

Off Day## We never fly on Sundays - the airport is closed and our crew and pilots need the rest. Plus a down day give us a chance to address the mounding pile of dirty laundry. Despite being an off day, I had a lot going on. We received two more teachers here, one from Nuuk, Greenland, and one

Meeting a Microbiologist!## The title of this research project, "Microbialites of Lake Joyce Antarctica", brings to mind a lot of questions: What is a microbialite? What do we hope to learn by studying them? To help my students and I better understand the nature of this research, I invited UCDavis

No Flying Today## Sometimes the weather simply will not cooperate. You'd think that with most of an island the size of Greenland at our disposal that we would be able to find a route somewhere that could avoid any potential bad weather. And usually that is the case, but not today. As I mentioned