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This is the shortest journal I plan to write, aside from the few days when I did not write at all! I am nearing the end of this trip to Antarctica, and I am pretty busy with all the last minute items on my ever-growing "To Do" list. The DOM team arrived at Crary Lab to a completely empty lab space

You have met Chad Brown a member of our team from Polar Grid. {photo of Chad 1 of 6] He along with Keith Lehigh represent Polar Grid and brought to the field the computer processors which enable the team to get a first look at the data to ensure that all the equipment is in perfect working order

If you did all your planning correctly we are ready to go. Now we wait until Lexi determines if the weather in all the locations of our grid, fueling caches, and at Byrd is going to be weather we can fly in. If any one of the locations has or is expecting bad weather or low visibility the flight is

Hello Trekkers,You've helped set up all the radars and you have loaded them into the plane and tested them. You're ready to fly in the twin otter airplane over areas of West Antarctica Ice Sheet using flight plans, BUT there is more to it than just getting on the plane. Let me introduce you to your

WAIS Divide, Antarctica: Our lives out here at WAIS as core handlers and ice core drillers revolves around ice but, we must have water (in its liquid form) to survive! Even though we are surrounded by snow we have to put lots fuel and energy into turning that snow into potable water.Our camp uses

WAIS Divide, Antarctica: Our primary goal here at WAIS Divide is to drill and collect ice cores and get it shipped back to the United States. My job, along with several other core handlers, is to document and inspect the ice for anything interesting and document it so we know at what depth and

We have now been coring for about two and half weeks and we are finally getting the hang of drilling, documenting, and packing the ice cores. We work 24 hours a day in three shifts. During each shift three drillers and three core handlers all work at the same time. The arch itself is split into the

The DOM team is beginning to close up our Antarctic science lab for winter, as we get ready to depart this beautiful continent in just four days. Heidi and I compiled lists of all the Cotton Glacier and Canada Glacier water samples. Heidi, Mike, and Collin are carefully packaging up samples for

The stage is built, the instruments in tune, the speakers wired, and the McMurdo crowd is ready to rock Ice Stock! This is the tenth year of the Ice Stock Music Festival at McMurdo Station, Antarctica. Groups of talented amateur musicians all around the station form bands or practice on their own in

As I prepare to return to school in a few days, I took some time out to reflect on my experience at the American Geophysical Union Meeting. It is hard to believe that there were over 14,000 scientists at this meeting! It was a very busy week. On Sunday I joined Kristin Timm from ARCUS, a polar