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12-20-06 67 49’ S, 113 27’ W Air: -1.9 C Water: -0.4C "The zone where today is tomorrow or how to steal a day…” Today 4 am we switched our ship (Chilean) time to McMurdo time which is New Zealand time by adding 16 hours to the clock. 7:30 am, our usual breakfast time, suddenly became 23:30 pm

Dec 20 A little lesson on Antarctic ice Two of our researchers, Hongjie Xie and Burcu Cicek from University of Texas, San Antonio, have been patiently awaiting the arrival of ice. They are part of a longterm study of global ice conditions that can be seen at the website www.aspect.org if you are

Dec. 19 – Welcome to the ice! After a full week of pushing across the Drake Passage – this evening we arrived in the pack ice. At first we could only see the tops of huge icebergs two or three times the size of the Oden – but as we continued on small, white spots – looking like the tips of breakers

Dec 19 or 20??? Suffering from "Oden-lag" Please be forewarned – Sea World Research Institute biologist Bill Everett had a full head of hair prior to pondering this next post. And tonight? I usually pride myself on being pretty good with math – especially those real world problems that stretch a

Marine biologist, researcher and ambassador for international collaboration – Veronica Vallejos *Special Interview with Veronica Vallejos - Head of the Instituto Antartico Chileno, INACH, Punte Arenas, Chile * Veronica was born and raised in Santiago, Chile, is 39 years old, not married, studied

12-18-06 Crossing the Antarctic Circle and waiting for the ice. 66°0-45,0' S 12-18-06 Crossing the Antarctic Circle and waiting for the ice. 66°0-45,0' S 00-96°0-52,0' W We crossed the Antarctic Circle! The air temperature dropped to -1.3 degrees C and the water temperature is at 0 degrees C. We are

Santa Lucia Oden December 13th Traditions in Sweden **The Oden is a Swedish icebreaker with a Swedish crew and traditions. Today’s dinner was very special. Swedish crewmembers and scientists had dressed up and came with candles into the mess deck to celebrate Santa Lucia and sing her song

12-16-06 - Saturday Rock & Roll Oden position: 0-63°0S 00-82°0-09,0' W, crossing the Antarctic Convergence, temperatures are falling Course: 216 ° Air pressure: 976.6 hPa falling Heading: 235° It is getting colder outside. The ship is rolling and rocking along the infamous Drake Passage. I almost

Antarctic Explorer Career Option – TV, Film, Radio Producer and Director So if you think that having passed many years of your life living and working in extreme environments such as Alaska or Scandinavia is a basic requirement for joining a polar expedition – let me introduce you to Valentine Kass

This is our 4th day since Cape Horn and we have been pushing with almost full power every minute averaging between 10 and 12 knots depending on the winds and current. I find it so hard to believe that there is this much ocean and not a speck of land we still see nothing but water in every direction