Out at sea
In order to fully understand the chemistry data we get from blowing snow, we need to assess the sea ice itself and snow lying on its surface. This includes the […]
In order to fully understand the chemistry data we get from blowing snow, we need to assess the sea ice itself and snow lying on its surface. This includes the […]
Another lovely day and no snow blowing into our baskets. We walked around Chip though, to get samples and a feel for the snow distribution around the berg. Michael, a […]
On Monday afternoon, we visited our sea ice sites with Amy from the Food Services office. Staff at McMurdo can put their name on a list to get a chance […]
Today is yet another gorgeous sunny spring day in McMurdo, so we found no blown snow in our collection baskets when we went out to our sites this morning. Fortunately […]
I guess I could call every post that, but since today is Sunday and I just spent the morning cross country skiing around the 7 mile Castle Rock Loop, I […]
or… The Science Behind the Adventure *** The high latitudes are bellwether regions of the impact of environmental factors upon global climate, as indicated by the Antarctic ozone hole, by […]
Windless Bight is an enormous ice plain, 27 kilometers northeast of Scott Base (Antarctica New Zealand) on the Ross Ice Shelf. Normally, it is a relatively windless area, and thus the […]
We have now installed our two field sites out on the Ross Sea. The first is near Butter Point (because Cape Chocolate was too protected from the over-ice winds we […]
Yesterday featured winds so strong (gusts up to 55 mph) the helicopters were all grounded, and the field portion of our sea ice training had to be rescheduled. Today was […]
Ross and I just returned from two days in the field at Happy Camper School (aka Snow Craft I). Some photos of our camp are below. Twenty of us began […]