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After eight days of weather delays we finally flew to the South Pole! ###Click the "Media" to see a YouTube video of the trip! This day started much like most of the previous eight. I woke up at 0545 to be prepared to fly to the South Pole. By 0700 the flight was delayed for 10 hours due to

Dr. Byron Adams, the P.I. (Principal Investigator) for the for the Soil Team (better known as the "worm-herders") at the McMurdo LTER (Long Term Ecological Research) site invited me and five of my top biology students to his lab to learn how to extract microscopic animals from frozen Antarctic soil

I hope you had a great Antarctica Day. We sure did in our class. We did some fun Antarctic activities. December 1st is Antarctica Day. It is in celebration of the Antarctic Treaty that was signed in 1959 by the many of the worlds countries. It was agreed then that no country would own Antarctica

Meet the Scientist This is the third of five "Meet the Scientist" journal entries featuring the members of the intrepid Automatic Weather Station crew. Have you been wondering who is with me here in Antarctica? Have you wondered how these people became scientists and what kind of experience and

Meet the Scientist This is the second of five "Meet the Scientist" journal entries featuring the members of the intrepid Automatic Weather Station crew. Have you been wondering who is with me here in Antarctica? Have you wondered how these people became scientists and what kind of experience and

Challenging and unpredictable weather ###Click the Media link to see a short video on the variability of the weather here in Antarctica. I'm here with a team of people who know a lot about weather. They are Meteorologists and Atmospheric Scientists. Their job here is to install and maintain

Helicopter yesterday, fixed-wing Twin Otter today! ###Click the Media tab to see a video of today's adventure. We flew to an Automatic Weather Station called 'Sabrina.' There are several really cool things about going to Sabrina. Sabrina is in the Western Hemisphere! McMurdo Station (where we are

Change of Plans ###Click the Media tab to see a YouTube video of our day! We were supposed to fly about 500-mile "grid west" of here to service two Automatic Weather Stations called Gill and Margaret. But, we were scrubbed for our Twin Otter flight due to bad weather at the destination. It looked

This past October, I had an amazing notification pop up in my email letting me know that I had a new comment on my 2015 US Arctic GEOTRACES expedition page. It pertained to a neat citizen science project we were supporting called Float Your Boat – click here for a synopsis: https://www.polartrec.com

I bet you can predict what I'm going to tell you! ###Yep, delayed again. The weather is...not good. So we sit, hunkered down, waiting for the weather to improve! The Antarctic has bad weather...who knew? My flight to the South Pole has been delayed several times per day, every day (except Sunday –