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This is a good time to provide an update on the status of Dr. Marchant’s field work for this field season. In addition to the team’s ongoing research on late Cenozoic climate change, Dr Marchant wanted to reach two specific drilling goals this drilling season: (1) drill to 20 m in 3 locations; and

I woke up on the morning of November 21st to the sound of quiet. The wind stopped blowing and it was a beautiful day in Beacon Valley. The night before Dave and the team were contemplating abandoning the hole and looking for a new drilling location. By lunch time, the team had definitely decided to

Since my selection as a PolarTREC teacher over 9 months ago, people have kept asking me if I was getting "excited". I have been so busy with the details of preparing for the trip that I could not let myself get caught up in the excitement. Today the excitement is real. I can feel it in the roll of

It is Sunday and we are all working to try and make up for the time we lost due to the bad weather. I actually enjoyed the snow and wind but that might be because I grew up in Tennessee and snow falling was a special occasion. However, it can look pretty scary at times. The weather today is really

It is a wet and cold day here in central NC... well... I guess cold is a relative term. I am trying to convince myself that in a few months I will be thinking that today's temperature of 3 degrees C is quite warm. On Thanksgiving Day when I checked the temperature for the closest town to Lake E, I

Storms in McMurdo, even mild ones can cause travel problems. I was re-scheduled to leave "The Ice” today. I have, indeed, made it to New Zealand! The plan (plans in Antarctica are always subject to change!) was for a C-17 to fly in from New Zealand, unload the new people arriving in Antarctica, then

The rest of the United States celebrated Thanksgiving on Thursday, November 27th but at McMurdo Station we are celebrating on Saturday, November 29th. The reason for this is that Sunday is a day off for most of the people on the station. If we celebrate on Saturday, then most people will get a two

11/28/2008 *Happy Thanksgiving! Here in Uruguay, there was no Thanksgiving holiday yesterday and although it was my first day in South America, it was hard to completely enjoy the experience. Although I had flown down on the Wed night flight from Miami, my luggage had not. We arrived here at