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For the past two weeks Amanda and Shawn have been busy in the lab prepping and conducting their experiments and today they would find out if they were successful. They left the field a couple of days ahead of us so that they could get a head start on cleaning, melting, and filtering almost 300lbs of

After living in the Dry Valleys of Antarctica for more than three weeks I will admit that they are cold, but how cold are they? We set up a data logger on our front porch to take temperature, relative humidity, and dew point readings every 6 hours to see how cold it was outside. In the following

Yesterday the boys (Brent, Mark, Scott, and Tim) made it out of McMurdo just in time. They were originally scheduled for an afternoon C-17 flight back to Christchurch, but the weather was forecasted to turn bad and they got switched to a morning flight on a C-130. I was sad that they were going to

I woke up at 4 am this morning to find out that we'd gone to Condition 2 sometime last evening. The winds created incredibly deep snow drifts all over the place, and I ended up in one outside of Crary Lab that put me in snow to almost mid thigh! Where are snow shoes when you need them?? Visibility

Today gave me a bit of a taste of the wicked winds that can blow down here. Fortunately, it was above zero and snowy so the wind chill was above zero. I must say that when we get sustained winds down here, those winds drive little ice crystals through the air that seem to slice into your eyes and

Even in Antarctica ice will melt. As the sun stays higher and higher in the sky as summer progresses, the warm sun causes the ice to melt. The questions that we are going to ask in the following activity are: Does clean ice (no sediment) or dirty ice (has sediment mixed in it) melt faster? and Would