Trip to upgrade equipment at the Mt. Coates GPS station on 23 Dec 2013. We flew from McMurdo in a Bell 212 helicopter and returned after about five hours on site.     Bell 212 helicopter, 36J, returns to Mt Coates to pick us up.

Rip’s comment about Malamutes got me thinking about how many dogs we would need and how long it would take to haul our ourselves, our equipment, and our fuel from McMurdo to Union Camp by dog sled (By the way, we have used dog sleds to reach a GPS station in Greenland). We have 22,000 …
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Map showing our project’s GPS and seismic stations. I’ve drawn a red line around the area where we will be working in the next few weeks. Union Glacier Camp is shown by a red star over on the left. McMurdo Station, where I am now, is marked by a gray star at the bottom right …
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The 2011-2012 POLENET season is underway and off to a great start. This year the team will be working out of McMurdo Station, Byrd Camp, and ALE Union Glacier Camp in order to install 4 GPS sites, remove 13 seismic stations, and maintenance 31 GPS and 22 seismic sites throughout the West Antarctic ice sheet. …
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It has been almost 2 weeks since I arrived at Byrd camp in the middle of the West Antarctic ice sheet and our project is off to a great start. The camp itself is pretty remote and home to about 35 people. This includes the scientists working on the POLENET project, pilots from Kenn Borek …
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After boarding three commercial flights, one Air Force C17, and traveling for about 33 hours, I finally arrived in one of the most remote places on Earth – Antarctica. For the next five weeks I will be based out of a small field camp in the western part of the continent called Byrd (named after …
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Join us for the unprecedented! Three planes in one day! Check out our latest progress across West Antarctica and get a taste for life here at Byrd Camp.To see a higher resolution version and download this podcast, please visit http://polenet.org/education/2minutes/ POLENET_8_xsmall.mp4 Watch on Posterous

After two weeks at Byrd Camp, we’ve made it out to a few key GPS and Seismic stations in West Antarctica. Come along on our latest adventures! POLENET_7.mov Watch on Posterous

Current Location: Byrd Camp, West Antarctica Current Weather: -15º C. Winds at 11 knots. Christmas decorations are often tucked away behind cellar doors. I remember digging out the tree, the ornaments, the lights– a responsibility that was inevitably passed on to me based on the fact that I was small enough to shuffle around the …
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“Nothing new at Byrd- cloud free and light winds, but expect things to change around 12 Z, when winds and blowing snow will pick up.” After a few days of absolutely gorgeous weather, these were the words we heard this morning when calling into Charleston, South Carolina for our weather outlook. Charleston, South Carolina? Yep. …
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