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Merry Christmas, Trekkers, How did you celebrate the holidays? Did you travel, eat, cook, eat, play games, eat, decorate, eat, frost sugar cookies, eat, make new friends, eat, laugh, eat, laugh more, eat? Well, the Byrd Surface Camp did all of that and more. There are 42 people in camp now so we had

Two things I will miss about being in Antarctica: cool ice crystals, and amazing atmospheric light shows. I was not in Antarctica during the winter - in which case I would have been fortunate enough to see the Aurora Australis - the Southern Lights. While I was there, the sun was in the sky the

Almost all the material that gets to the south pole is transported using LC-130 Hercules planes ("Hercs"). Every day, Hercs come in, drop off equipment, people, and fuel, and then take off again for McMurdo, carrying people and any waste stuff that needs to be hauled out. But it turns out, there are

In our previous episode, we saw our valiant heroes attempt to make ice cream from a secret recipe, using only south pole snow (at -28°F) to freeze it into a delicious soft-serve consistency. It took approximately 12 minutes, considerably longer than it took in the classroom using regular ice and

One of the most exciting tools the DOM team has at the Crary Lab is designed and built by one of our very own team members, Chip Kilduff. Chip built a reverse osmosis (RO) instrument that separates out all the dissolved material in our water samples that is smaller than 0.45 micrometers (µm), or 0

I love Christmas. I really enjoy decorating Christmas trees. Maybe that is why we usually have several Christmas trees in my home. One of the special trees we set up is a live red cedar. I remember as a child going out into the pasture with grandparents on the farm and choosing a fresh cedar for the

Trekkers,The CReSIS team had their first official radar flight from Byrd Surface Camp yesterday, December 22, 2009. CReSIS team members Fernando Rodriguez - Morales and Cameron Lewis, along with pilot Lexi Larson and co-pilot Lee Thomas took off into beautiful blue skies. They were gone about 7

WAIS Divide, Antarctica: We are certainly guaranteed a white holiday celebration here at WAIS Divide. The driller and core handlers will continue to work and collect ice cores so that we can reach our goal of coring to a depth of ~2500 m by the end of the season. However, we will take a break long

Trekkers, Imagine that you could climb inside a giant ball that is painted the color of milk. Inside that ball would be totally white. There is no horizon in the distance. The sky is white with clouds. The ground is white with snow. The view in the distance is white with fog or blowing snow. If you

Believe it or not Trekkers, I have spotted Santa. He was playing bass in a 3 man combo at a charity event sponsored by the women of McMurdo Station. Every year for the last 14 years the women here in Antarctica stationed in and around McMurdo put on a "Women's Soiree". This is a talent show the