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After checking in our bags at the transit center, we had about 12 hours to spend at McMurdo Station before our scheduled meeting time at 1:30 am. We were assigned shared rooms in the station dormitories, but most of us only used the rooms to store our carry on bags while we toured the station

I am packing in the land of the Packers. A whirlpool has taken hold of the whole state and everything revolves around tonight's big game. Most everybody is excited about the possibility of waking up to see the Packers champions of the Super Bowl. I am finding it hard to follow all that excitement as

The Oden finally reached, the pier at McMurdo Station the afternoon of January 16, carefully breaking the ice up to the pier. Here the ice was different than the ice we had seen. It was thin and very clear in some places, almost like the ice on the top of a frozen lake. The pier itself is an "ice

The morning started with a 4:40am wake-up call! After driving around town in the Super Shuttle picking up other passengers headed to the ice, we arrived that the CDC to change clothes into our ECW gear and get our luggage put on the plane. After receiving our boarding pass, it was time for a nice

La temperatura aquí siempre nos sopriende diariamente. Comenzamos el día con temporeros relativamente templados que terminaron con un alto de 12° F ((-11C) por mediodía. Cuando nos embarcamos alrededor de 11AM, una niebla helada gruesa que se había asentado por la noche nos cubrió. La visibilidad

¡El día 2 en el Campamento de Hielo! Congregamos una vez más en Ed. 36 a preparar para la jornada ardua afuera al hielo. ¡Con la llegada de Tish ayer, nosotros ahora tenemos el equipo completo aquí! El foto cortesía de Tish Yager." class="standalone-image" /> En el primer día afuera, yo tuve asuntos

As a part of my PolarTREC educational outreach, I invited classrooms and community groups to decorate a flag that I would bring with me on my expedition. Now, with my time on the Oden ending, I asked permission of the captain to fly the flags once more - this time on the bridge which had been my

A week from tomorrow I will be flying down to McMurdo Station! The path that I will follow to Antarctica is much easier to follow than the one folioed by Shackleton and Amundsen on their race to the South Pole, but it is still not a walk in the park. Modern airplanes make travel a more enjoyable

The final drill depth for the 2010-2011season is 3,331.538 meters. We've officially reached our goal! Given the challenges of the season, we were all relieved and thrilled to reach our goal! The Camp staff, drillers, and the science team all witnessed the last core come to the surface. It was

Everyone told me that "flexibility" and "rescheduled" are two key words to travel in Antarctica, but I never realized how true this would be! People who know me will all agree that I am ultra-organized, and a planner who lives by her calendars. Well, I am learning that there are some things that