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Our first day in Antarctica was beautiful - clear, blue, sunny, and relatively warm. Then we had our experience camping on the ice at happy camper school and ever since it’s been blowing snow and outside it’s chilly, mostly overcast, and visibility comes and goes. On Tuesday it was -26 F. To see our

Happy Camper SchoolLess than 24 hours after landing on “the Ice”, we had to “really, experience” the ice.Our rooms were still not quite situated, our personal stuff was barely unpacked, and we were missing one crate of stuff, including our “pee bottles”, sunscreen, and lotion – things that we would

After my whirlwind day of presentations in New Zealand, I had a few days to explore this beautiful country. I got the chance to hike along steep cliffs and see some very interesting, little holiday shacks, called baches, right by the pounding surf. I also got to see some of the sights of

CReSIS researcher Leigh Stearns featured in upcoming issue of Rolling Stone! "On Thin Ice" http://tinyurl.com/2b6ubzj

Introducing a new web site as part of the Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets (CReSIS)! If you still don't have your fill of polar science after following all the amazing expeditions part of the PolarTREC program, you can swing on over to the 'CReSIS in the Field' blog and follow members of the

It's official, we will be deploying from Kansas City International Airport on November 4, 2010! We expect to return just in time for Thanksgiving. We'll spend a few days in New Zealand before heading down to McMurdo Station. McMurdo will act as our home base for the duration of our stay in

Are you curious about what a marine biologist does during an average day at work? Julie Barber, one of our team mates, is a marine biologist for the Swinomish (Swin-a-mish) Indian Tribal Community in La Conner, Washington. She has three WATER DROPs from the toddlers at the Child Care Center for the

I live in south-central Wyoming, a place notorious for being VERY windy. When we happen to have a day without wind, residents are very superstitious and won't say the word "wind"! When someone, usually not a Rawlins resident, says "wind", we are quick to shush them. Rawlins, Wyoming has an average