POLENET_6.mov Watch on Posterous Welcome to the 2010-2011 POLENET Field Season! We’re just getting geared up to head to Byrd Surface Camp and are attempting to reach 40 GPS and seismic sites located across the continent. Come along with us! Check out our new video podcast and stay tuned for the next one from Byrd …
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Frosty Boy, We Send Best Wishes
Current location: McMurdo Station, Antarctica Current temperature: -9º C Windchill: -14º C While this blog is in place principally to provide the ins and outs of POLENET field operations, I would like to diverge for a moment and tell the story of one very eventful lunch session in the McMurdo Station galley. But …
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Greetings from McMurdo!
Working in Antarctica requires a set of finely tuned tools: patience, endurance, and optimism. At the mercy of the weather, your plans change with the wind, requiring many layers of alternate strategies. Meetings often revolve around phrases like “what if” and “plan B and C.” All plans must start somewhere, though, and for us, the …
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