Resupply ship arrives
We are still awaiting the next available flight out of McMurdo, and this morning the resupply ship arrived and docked outside of McMurdo....
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El Pasoans in Antarctica!
We enjoyed meeting fellow El Pasoans, Eric, a McMurdo Firefighter, and Nick, a WAIS Divide cargo manager! #picksup #gominers
Skiing the Castle Rock Loop
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...
Polar Star Icebreaker
Saturday evening, the Coast Guard was offering tours of the Polar Star Icebreaker, so we went to see it. The Polar Star is currently...
Penguins and volcanoes!
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...
Field gear return and retro cargo
Back in McMurdo, we cleaned and dried our field base tent, cleaned our thermoses and water bottles, and returned all of the borrowed gear...
Return to McMurdo
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,...
Helping to service a PoleNet seismic station
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...
Recreation at WAIS Divide
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....
More views around WAIS Divide camp
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...
Launching a weather balloon
Every morning at 10AM, one of the WAIS weather observers would launch the daily weather balloon. Stephanie kindly let us watch and help...
Successful end to the project, packing up cargo
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...
Picking up the seismometers
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...
Testing seismic sources
From Jan. 11-14, we tested a few configurations of small, surface shots and small, drilled and loaded shots. One of the configurations...
Rough weather and snow drilling
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...
Fantastic day trip to Thwaites Glacier!
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...
Daily routine at WAIS Divide
Our approximate daily routine at WAIS Divide during our field work was approximately as follows: 7AM Breakfast in the Galley 7:30AM...
Deploying seismic nodes and geophones
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...
Stake out: Surveying seismometer sites with RTK GPS
We used Real Time Kinematic GPS borrowed from UNAVCO to stake out and flag our seismometer sites for installation at the pre-determined...
Setting up our field base
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...
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