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I left Los Angeles at 10:20 p.m. on Thursday November 15, 2012 and arrived in Christchurch, New Zealand around 3:30 p.m. on Saturday November 17, 2012 after a quick plane change in Sydney, Australia. Here is a teaser: If it is 10:20 p.m. on November 15, 2012 in Los Angeles, what time is it in

More Weddell seal tag recoveries Our research team has made a lot of progress this past week - We’ve been very, very busy! In the last journal we mentioned that our collaborators had found dive recorders from WS12-12 (“Boo”) and WS12-13 (“Lucky”). This week we were able to relocate these two

Boxes We had some science excitement today. A shipping container with most of the scientific data collection instruments was shipped from Christchurch, New Zealand to McMurdo on yesterdays C17 flight. We opened it up today and started unloading the equipment – just as the weather took a major

Tuesday, November 13 - Thursday November 15! Talk about a long travel day! Getting to Antarctica isn't easy. It took 32 hours, one car and five different airplanes to travel a total of 15,862 KM (9856 miles) just to make it to Christchurch. I left home in Shippenville PA at 5:50 AM on Tuesday

We are all done with the trainings required for our field work. Happy Camper school which is survival training in case we get stranded out in the field was the last piece of the puzzle. Now the team spent yesterday preparing the seismic stations and doing reconnaissance flights over the projected