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This week I'm a stowaway with Craig Smith who teaches at University of Hawaii in Manoa and a grad student from Duke, David Honig. Their research is part of the LARISSA Project (LARsen Ice Shelf System of Antarctica). LARISSA is an integrated, multi-disciplinary research project focusing on the

I was unable to upload the videos I was making through out the cruise because we did not have live internet and had bandwidth restrictions. I will go back and add the videos to the journal where they fit. I am creating this media entry so you can find all videos and do not have to go searching for

What is IT? Here’s an additional Polar Points Challenge! I received some interesting items in the mail last week and thought I’d let you take a sneak peek – literally. This is a ‘close up' image of one of the items. Your job is to tell me What it IS! If you are keeping track of your ‘Polar Points

We exited the tunnel today and headed to the base of the glacier where we will stay in a cabin while the ice oozes into the cavity. Ben and Pete will return to the tunnel to administer the pump tests while I will head back before then. The trip down the glacier was scenic and slow... I had too much

In today's world of climate change or global warming or whatever you call it, the use and transport of carbon has become a world famous logistics problem. Humans do not make all this new carbon and then decide to just dump it in to the air. The carbon has always been here. It's locked up in the wood

The winch is fixed, the ship is at sea, and the icefishes came out to greet us. Well, not exactly. We tracked them down. We had a good fishing trip and got what we needed. The whole process is a lot of work but also so interesting. One round takes a little over an hour. The trawl is lowered to the

Okay, well, maybe not high fashion, but what you wear in Antarctica is extremely important! It's cold and often snowy and very windy. If you have to be outside for any length of time whether you are doing research or going out for a hike up the glacier or out in the zodiac boat to explore the nearby

As you know the town of Healy is a pretty small place. Most everyone that lives in the community knows each other or at least knows of each other, so people tend to keep track of what's going on around town. There are various ways of keeping up to date with the local happenings. As you can imagine

Well today marks the last day for me in the tunnel, tomorrow we head down the hill to the cabins below. It is a Norwegian holiday, their national day, and no one is available to supervise the tunnel. So today we just hauled the garbage to the helicopter and tidied up a bit in the lab. Pete checked

We had lots of different things go on today that are worth mentioning. First let's talk about the weather. Today was the chilliest and most windy day we have had since arriving. You could tell from the cabin this morning when the wind started making little noises, that it would be with us all day