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 […]