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We finally caught a flight to McMurdo from WAIS yesterday afternoon, but it wasn't all a simple flight back. The plane landed around 11:30am and was bringing fuel and freshies (fresh fruits and veggies) to the field camp. Once the fueling was complete it was time to board the plane. I was able to

Posting Location: Christchurch, New Zealand New Zealand Posting Date/Time: Dec 24th, 8:00AM Blanco Posting Date/Time: Dec 23rd, 1:00PM It is a few days before I meet the team from UW-Madison so... Yesterday I walked around the downtown area of Christchurch enjoying the breezy sunny summer weather

Latitude: 72.36 S **Longitude: **138.1 W Captain Mattias gave us an early Christmas present today. He parked the Oden next to an ice floe, lowered the gangplank, and off we went! We spent a couple of hours playing around, taking pictures of each other, and setting the world record of pictures

Before Christmas at the South pole Temperature: - 29 C, - 20.2F Windchill: **- 39C, - 38.2 F **Wind: 6.6 knts. Weather: Mostly clear Saturday morning was taking up with posting journals, answering questions posted on the web, and attending the weekly all-station science meeting with

Posting Location- Christchurch, New Zealand Local Posting Day and Time- Dec 23rd, 9:22 PM Central Standard Posting Day and Time- Dec 23rd, 2:22AM Today’s WATIZIT Picture Answers to be provided in the future. Today’s (or is it yesterday’s) math problem. A science teacher arrives at the San Antonio

Location: About 20 meters to the NW of WAIS So today was supposed to be my last day at WAIS, much like December 19 and 20. Once again weather was playing a factor, just messing with my head a little bit more. At least with the first two flights they were canceled long before I had started any

Temperature: **- 27.7 C. -7.1 F **Windchill: -29.6C, -21.3F Wind: 5.2 Knots. Weather: Overcast Yesterday ended not until today with answering comments from the PolarTREC website. Great to get all the different comments and questions! Thank you all! After breakfast the station conducted

Communicating with classrooms! Temperature: - 22.7 C, - 15F Windchill: - 33.6 C, - 32.5 F Wind: 15 kts, in the morning, calming throughout the day, clear at night Weather: Overcast Today we had "Life from IPY” at 7:30 am. It was December 20th for us at the South Pole. For all of

December 15, 2007, Christchurch , New Zealand Present Conditions: Quite Balmy, nice breeze, warm (relative) drizzly weather; 22C. Last night we returned to Christchurch from McMurdo. The C-17 that brought us back to the world north of 70 degrees south latitude included 68 other researchers and a few