Field Update: Jan. 5, 2011
Dustin and Paul from the SCINI team flew back to Christchurch this morning, but Bob Zook stayed behind to pack all of the SCINI equipment for shipment back to the United States. This packing and...
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Field Update: Jan. 6, 2011
The seismic refraction experiment is ready to be shot. The explosives are down in the 55 shot holes and the 100 geophones are buried in the snow on the opposite side of the proposed drill site...
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Field Update: Jan. 7, 2011
I received some feedback from people who started thinking about the implications of us having to make our own drinking water. Here’s another view of the water tank in the tri-wall cardboard box, right...
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After a good deal of planning and many emails back and forth, we are participating in a test of the Air National Guard’s (ANG) new Crevasse Detection Radar (CDR) in support of NSF’s science mission in...
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Field Update: Jan. 17, 2011
I woke to find Oden unloading cargo at the ice pier just in front of my dorm. The Nathaniel B. Palmer is sitting offshore waiting for its turn at the dock. Up close, Oden looks very impressive with...
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Field Update: Jan. 20, 2011
Today I presented the new NOVA special “Secrets Beneath the Ice” to the community attending the premier in the McMurdo Galley. There were about 150 to 200 people in all, and from what I could tell...
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Field Update: Jan. 27, 2011
The fieldwork for this season is nearly completed and the team members are on their way back to McMurdo Station and Scott Base by tractor traverse across the Ross Ice Shelf towing all of the ANDRILL...
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Field Update: Jan. 28, 2011
The refueling vessel is sitting offshore, but there is a problem with the ice pier. A ridge of ice is protruding like a ledge out from the front edge of the pier and the vessels can’t get close enough...
View ArticleField Update: Jan. 31, 2011
The T-5 fuel tanker MV Richard G. Matthiesen pulled up to the ice pier last night and began to offload its load of fuel to McMurdo shore tanks. The MV Richard G. Matthiesen is a U.S. merchant ship (a...
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