On Sunday, November 7th, I visited Dr. Jesse Walker, professor emeritus in the Department of Geography and Anthropology at LSU. Dr. Walker has conducted geomorphology research along the Colville River in Alaska’s North Slope for over 50 years. His seminal trips to the Arctic took place before the
Here's a little video shout out to all you celebrating Thanksgiving today. We are having our turkey with many, many fixings tomorrow, Saturday, to take advantage of a special two-day weekend. I'm thankful for a lot, but today I'm especially thankful for my Gore-tex liners and my thick leather
Happy Thanksgiving from all of us here in Antarctica. We will celebrate tomorrow, our Saturday, when our galley is hosting a feast for all 1200 of us here on station. The WATER DROPs will watch over us and you'll all be in our hearts. This will be a special weekend for us as well as it is the one
We've had two more days of canceled flights to complete our work. The only remaining units we have left to deploy are two summer ice sites and the end of the glacier on the Ross Ice Shelf, and two winter-over ice sites in the catchment basin at the top of the glacier above two subglacial lakes
What do you know about Weddell Seals, one of the top predators in Antarctica? What do you know about the people that study them? What do they do and how? What questions do they ask? For the past 42 years, researchers have been studying these seals in Antarctica. Representing one of the longest field
Let me try to run through a little of why I'm here. The project I'm here to work on is called IceCube. IceCube is an array of about 80 vertical sets of 60 photo collectors buried in the ice here at the South Pole. Each photo collector is like a sophisticated digital camera--it detects photons (light
What happens to the salinity in the Bering Sea during ice and no ice conditions? Does it change throughout the year and at different depths during different seasons? Create a model of the Bering Sea in ice conditions. Change the conditions based on seasonal changes to explore the effects of runoff on salinity.
We flew our third and likely final heli day yesterday. We installed three winter-over ice sites and an additional four summer ice sites. That brings our grand total so far to 27 GPS sites! We are slated to fly on the Twin Otter this morning to install our final two winter-over ice sites on two
Don't worry, I'm fine. I worked the second half of the day and feel pretty good. This morning was a different story-- I felt totally wiped out. Unable to move much with really heavy limbs, a headache, short of breath, the whole thing. I wasn't having any altitude symptoms before but this morning
Beverly is a newbie to Antarctica like Tina, Kevin, Julie, and David. Though she is from Atlanta, Georgia, she is currently going to school in Nashville, Tennessee. Beverly adopted a WATER DROP from Harrison's class at Our Lady of Merced and took it to work with her for a few days. Beverly studies
