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Just before Ian was about to go into the water, he looked up across the lake and said "penguin!" Sure enough, there was an Adelie penguin trying to make his way across the lake! He climbed up onto the ice ledges and hobbled down onto the smooth ice areas. Then he made his way over to camp. This

What a spectacular day, the sun was shining all day today! It never ceases to amaze me how much of a difference a little sunshine can make! Things warmed up today. It was only 3 °F, but it felt like a balmy day! We got the compressor running again - after sticking it into the tent for a couple hours

Life, like planet earth, is constantly changing and full of surprises. Our department (Earth Science and Anthropology) moved from a Math Science Building which was built shortly before the Dinosaur Extinction, to the new Allied Health Sciences Building which was (almost) completed days before fall

It was cold this morning! We all headed to the dive hole at about 9:30 this morning. There was no sun and a slight snow was falling. Everything was freezing that we needed to use: regulators, batteries, Hal's motor parts, etc. We went through some hot thermos water today! We poured the hot water on

Yesterday, we set Hal (a profiler, which has probes attached to it to monitor oxygen saturation levels within the algal mat) back into the lake to get to work. We left him at about 10:30 pm and all was well. He worked GREAT until about 6:00 this morning at which point, well.... he stopped! So, I

Air; it's a wonderful thing! As if working conditions are not difficult enough, the air has been so cold recently that the air compressor won't even start. I must have pulled the starter cord 5000 times over several hours! It tried to start, but just wouldn't turn over. This makes filling the SCUBA

Temperature control in Antarctica is quite difficult, especially on such cold days! Dressing in layers is key, but it is tiring constantly putting layers on and then taking layers off. Gloves on because it's COLD, then gloves off to gain dexterity for the work that needs doing. It would be

The day started with some "helo support" to help move some heavy equipment from near camp to a spot on the lake. It's impressive to watch the helo crews operate; check out the video for a quick glimpse. http://

All the "pieces" have come together and the reason we

The dive hole is almost ready! It is actually already large enough for divers to get through; in fact, the upper portion of the dive hole is huge! But, as the hole goes deeper, the hole gets narrower. We couldn't really see from the surface how narrow it was at the bottom, so I went for a quick swim