We are still awaiting the next available flight out of McMurdo, and this morning the resupply ship arrived and docked outside of McMurdo....

We enjoyed meeting fellow El Pasoans, Eric, a McMurdo Firefighter, and Nick, a WAIS Divide cargo manager! #picksup #gominers

I love cross-country skiing and since we arrived, I had been hoping to ski the Castle Rock Loop, a ~9-mile snow trail to the rock...

Saturday evening, the Coast Guard was offering tours of the Polar Star Icebreaker, so we went to see it. The Polar Star is currently...

At McMurdo, we rented fat tire bicycles capable of riding on snow one evening. We biked over to visit Scott Base and then we biked out...

Back in McMurdo, we cleaned and dried our field base tent, cleaned our thermoses and water bottles, and returned all of the borrowed gear...

On Tues., Jan. 22nd, the weather and logistics aligned for an LC-130 to pick up all 14 science personnel at WAIS Divide (PoleNet, MELT,...

On Jan. 20th, I went to help PoleNet service their seismic station about 8 km from WAIS Divide. I was also curious to see how the PoleNet...

When we were waiting for our flight, I finally had some time to enjoy the cross country skis at WAIS Divide on the berms and the runway....

After 2 weeks of long field days, we were thankful to have some time to get a good night's sleep, visit with the rest of the camp, and...

Every morning at 10AM, one of the WAIS weather observers would launch the daily weather balloon. Stephanie kindly let us watch and help...

Everything went well with our field work, and we finished right on time at 14 days of field work including packing up our cargo. We...

On Jan. 15, we picked up all of the 100 seismic nodes and the 48-channel Geode system of cabled geophones. It took us about 2 hours to...

From Jan. 11-14, we tested a few configurations of small, surface shots and small, drilled and loaded shots. One of the configurations...

On Jan. 9-10, the weather was pretty rough with low visibility (but not too low to work), blowing snow, 25 knot winds, and wind chills up...

On the morning of Jan. 8, for the first time since we arrived at WAIS Divide, weather reports from a crew of traversing staff and...

Our approximate daily routine at WAIS Divide during our field work was approximately as follows: 7AM Breakfast in the Galley 7:30AM...

On Jan. 6-7, with the help of a few other scientists and camp staff at WAIS Divide, we deployed 100 3-component, Z-Land Gen2, Fairfield...

We used Real Time Kinematic GPS borrowed from UNAVCO to stake out and flag our seismometer sites for installation at the pre-determined...

The weather was very windy with blowing snow on Jan. 4th, so we spent the morning continuing to organize our field gear, waiting for the...