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We have passed Isla de los Estados and will be off the Continental Shelf soon- that translates into deeper water! The ship now has a steady, stronger roll. It was reported that it was very bumpy through the night. However, most people were so tired they slept right through it. This begins the

We made it! After an extra afternoon in Christchurch, we made our flight to the ice this morning. First, a little information from the last day in New Zealand before hitting the ice. We’re not really much for doing the tourist thing, but today, we wanted to get out of the city. We were so busy

Location: Straits of Magellan Latitude: 53 Longitude: 70 Weather: Partly cloudy We pulled out of port at dawn this morning at 5:55! I was awakened by an unusual humming and vibration-I knew we were on the move. However, it was still dark out, and we are not supposed to venture out

November 30, 2007, Friday McMurdo Station, Antarctica Special Edition to the Daily Journal: Meet the Team April Gossmann I would like to introduce you to the members of the B-518 Environmental Monitoring Team who are part of this project this year. The PI (Principal Investigator) is Dr. Chuck

November 30, 2007, Friday McMurdo Station, Antarctica 11:00am High: +19F wind chill: +9F Low: +19F wind chill -3F Winds: E 8 knts; Station Pressure: 28.930” Present Conditions: overcast; light flurries picking up to gusty and more snowfall Thursday afternoon we began collecting samples of the

(5:30am) OK, time to go. We will write more later. So far this morning, in 5 minutes time, maybe less actually, we were told the flight out of Christchurch was delayed indefinitely, and then we got a call that we're going! Crazy. We'll send more when we are settled somewhere. Wishing you all the

This is a look at what went into living in Antarctica and preparing for an expedition in the early decades of the 20th Century. As I looked around the Terra Nova Hut at Cape Evans and the Discovery Hut at Hut Point at McMurdo, (which I can see from my dorm room window just across Winter Quarter's

November 29, 2007 A Special Edition Journal Entry... A History of Antarctic Exploration The Geography course that I teach branches into both the natural and the social sciences. History is but one of those parts of the social sciences. The history of Antarctic exploration is one based on not just

Leaving at 1:15am on Monday from Kansas City and arriving at 10:30am on Wednesday in Christchurch, New Zealand certainly was a bit odd, especially after not really being on a plane for nearly two days. That’s what happens when you cross the International Date Line. So as I sit here at the Windsor B

Long Term Monitoring- the Why and What November 28, 2007, Wednesday McMurdo Station, Antarctica 9:45pm High: **+27F wind chill: +27F **Low: +10F wind chill -4F Winds: E 7-12 knts; Station Pressure: 28.910" Present Conditions: partly cloudy Sunset: February 20, 2008