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Weather: ##Another 60-Second (really 3 minutes this time) Freezing Cool Antarctic Fact Video: Do Compasses Work In Antarctica?

###LIVE FROM ANTARCTICA### Join PolarTREC for a live event from McMurdo Station, Antarctica. The event will be held on Wednesday, 6

The one thing I have learned for sure about Antarctica, is that nothing is for sure. Our team had great plans today to get to Miers Valley to conduct our field science. This trip was on the schedule for last week while we were stranded for three days at F6 site. We arrived at the heliport to be

LIVE FROM ANTARCTICA### Join PolarTREC for a live event from McMurdo Station in Antarctica. The event will be held on Wednesday, 6 February 2019 with teacher Kevin Dickerson and the 2019 Dry Valleys Ecosystem Study Team. The one hour event starts at 11:30am Alaska Savings Time (12:30pm PST, 1

Check out the video I included in this journal of my leisurely Sunday morning stroll through the station. It's below. Here are some shots from our McMurdo intranet this morning. I also included pictures to explain the difference between the classifications of the severity of weather. Check out this

Location: F6 Camp Hut. Coordinates of: 77°36'29.8" South and 163°15'19.1" East ##Weather: Teens, windy with gusts to 30mph, snow. ##Day 2 at F6 Camp I noticed the winds really picking up about 3am. This was not a quiet place. I was thankful to have a nice sleeping bag to use. Below, you can see

Location: F6 Camp which is located in the Taylor Valley. Coordinates of: 77°36'29.8" South and 163°15'19.1" East ##Weather: Good enough to get us dropped into F6 in the morning, but not good enough to get picked up. Topper (Dr. Tom Powers), Alyssa, Tasha, and myself were asked by Byron (Dr. Byron

Location: F6 Hut near Lake Fryxell in Taylor Valley. Coordinates are: 77°36'29.8" South and 163°15'19.1" East This is Kevin's wife Danelle. Kevin called for a quick check-in and to update us on what is going on. The reason he hasn't posted for a couple of days is that his 6-hour trip that was

Please tune into my LIVE PolarConnect event on February 6th, 1:30pm Utah Time. Easy to follow instructions are found on our PolarTREC webpage. Today was a no-fly day so we had some extra lab time. That turned out to be an okay thing because we were paid a visit at our lab by New Zealand's famous

Weather: Snow ##Location: McMurdo Science Station Many of the field camps are closing down now to overnight stays. Support staff are out there preparing the camps, like the ones I have shown you from Lake Fryxell and Lake Bonney, for Antarctic's harsh winter season. Our team is still planning