New results from the GNET project show the Greenland ice sheet is losing approximately 8% more ice into the sea each year than previous estimates indicated. ‘The team behind the new research said better estimates of continental rebound rates could be even more significant in estimates of ice loss from the world’s biggest ice cap, …
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If you would like to attend our Glacial Isostatic Adjustment Training School lectures virtually, then please follow the link to the Training School home page. http://polenet.org/?page_id=2261 There you will find dates, lecture titles, start times and links to the webinar meeting room. Please be sure to read the helpful hints to ensure you can get …
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I’m back at Zuchelli station after spending about five days at Hallett Camp. We installed the VL01 GPS station the day we arrived there. Weather was nice, just a bit of snow one day, otherwise mostly sunny. It was truly spectacular scenery. I shot lots of video – great place to be flying around in …
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It’s been a hard day’s night! We departed McMurdo around 8:00 pm and flew to Butcher Ridge in a Bell 212. The site is about () southwest of McMurdo. It’s at elevation so it can be chilly if the wind is blowing. The scenery was great but the Butcher was not friendly. The temperature was …
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I’m happy to report that our IRIS Intern Emma Myers has now arrived in Colorado from Western Washington U. and is already off to a great start on the Antarctic POLENET seismicity project. We are making good progress with the USGS NEIC so far on Antarctic seismic data queuing and software development.  Nicole is working …
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Eric at South Pole on 24 Jan 2014. Amundsen-Scott station is in the background. The photo of me standing on my head doing my Atlas impersonation didn’t turn out, so I need to go back. It was relatively warm, -18 F, only a few degrees colder than Columbus, which was -11 F last night.

Wilson Nunatak GPS station maintenance, 01 Jan 2014. We stopped by here on the way back to Union Glacier after finishing work at Howard Nunataks earlier in the day.      

Howard Nunataks GPS and seismic station maintenance, 01 Jan 2014.      

The new GPS station installed at Pirrit Hills Antarctica on 30 Dec 2013.    

We spent the day training how to rescue ourselves or someone else if they fall into a crevasse – especially important to brush up on this since we intend to install six new GPS stations this year and so will be exploring some new territory, not just visiting sites where we’ve been before.     …
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