The Oden is a Swedish ship, with a Swedish crew and, accordingly, on board web they follow Swedish traditions and holidays. A special day that signals the start of the Winter holiday season is Santa Lucia Day. Celebrated each year on December 13, this "Holiday of Lights" is observed on the "darkest
I have received a lot of questions about life here aboard the Oden, so I'd thought I'd tell you about one aspect everyone can relate to - FOOD! The Oden has 3 people in charge of meals and food for the 62 people on board. Bo Cederberg is the Chief Cook. Ranjit Roy is the cook, and Kristel Pettersson
Our Arctic core samples keep turning up great surprises! If you'll recall from a previous journal (August 13, 2010 Piston Coring), we struck gas hydrate in the bottom of one of our cores in the Beaufort Sea. At the core analysis workshop at the USGS Coastal & Marine Science Labs in Menlo Park, CA
People tend to think of Antarctica as a vast, untouched wilderness. Most of it is. However, scientists have been coming to Antarctica for years and conducting a wide variety of experiements and collecting data to analyze at their home institutions. Even the famous explorers, Scott and Shackleton
Maurice (pronounced "Morris") Conway is the mountaineer for our team. Any scientific research expedition that ventures into the "Deep Field" (any area beyond McMurdo and associated hub-fieldcamps - like the Central TransAntarctic Mountains - CTAM) must have a mountaineer accompany them. This is to
Fieldwork for exposure dating is very rigorous. The first day we ventured into the field, I thought I had woken up to find myself enrolled in Antarctic bootcamp. Over a span of about nine hours, John, Perry, and I walked about eight miles. We were only a total distance of 2.3 miles as the crow flies
Through activities, video observation, experimentation and the construction of a Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) students will learn about the chemical and physical properties of sea ice.
Objectives
Students will be able to answer main questions of where sea ice is, how it is formed, why the ice is important, how it is classified by indigenous people and scientists, how
The days are flying by now as we are getting busy with a variety of science activities. At Ice Station 3, our sea ice team deployed the first ice mass buoy (IMB.) An ice mass buoy is a remote sensing device that is permanently installed on a large ice floe and sends back data. The IMB we deployed
Our scheduled helicopter flight to Cloudmaker Peak was right on time. We met with the pilot and helicopter (helo) technician at 12:45 to discuss cargo priorities and load the helicopter. The first flight would carry five of us, John, Brenda, Gordon, Perry, and myself along with gear to find a
This PolarConnect event was held on 16 December 2010 with Heidi Roop who is working with an ice core drilling team on the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. This live event was broadcast and had a live component at the AGU 2010 Fall Meeting.
