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Antarctic Life: A Look Back At Our Time In the Field, Part 3

By Nadine Quintana Krupinski · December 31, 2007 · comments No comments yet
The members of our team are now either home or still in the process of making their way there. Looking back at our time in the field here in Antarctica, I want to share some… {Read More »}


Antarctic Life: A Look Back At Our Time In the Field, Part 2

By Nadine Quintana Krupinski · December 30, 2007 · comments 1 comment
The members of our team are now either home or still in the process of making their way there. Looking back at our time in the field here in Antarctica, I want to share some… {Read More »}


Antarctic Life: A Look Back At Our Time In the Field, Part 1

By Nadine Quintana Krupinski · December 28, 2007 · comments No comments yet
As our team finishes up and we all make our way back to the States, I thought I'd post a variety of photos from our time in Antarctica. Our first stop on the journey home… {Read More »}


Like No Other: The South Pole Christmas Tree

By Kathryn Schaffer Miknaitis · December 25, 2007 · comments 9 comments
My new favorite thing in the whole universe is the Christmas tree at the South Pole: The second I saw it... ...I fell in love with it. As it's been explained to me, the tree… {Read More »}


What Passes for Weather

By Kathryn Schaffer Miknaitis · December 24, 2007 · comments No comments yet
We're guaranteed to have a white Christmas (of sorts) here at the South Pole. But it won't snow. It is normally too cold here for any form of precipitation. The snow on the ground here… {Read More »}


Melting Glacial Torrents

By David Ainley · December 23, 2007 · comments No comments yet
CAPE BIRD, ANTARCTICA-- We paid a visit to Cape Bird to begin a pilot project to assess the hemoglobin and hematocrit (red blood cell count) levels of penguins. In the past we’ve found that there… {Read More »}


Ice Balloons Activity

By Paul Doherty · December 21, 2007 · comments 2 comments
Here's a great activity! {Read More »}


Finishing Our Field Work

By Nadine Quintana Krupinski · December 18, 2007 · comments 1 comment
In this latest audio dispatch, I describe the end of our field work here--taking down our camp and setting our devices so they continue to collect data for us for the next two years. In… {Read More »}


Hatching Eggs

By David Ainley · December 17, 2007 · comments 4 comments
CAPE ROYDS, ANTARCTICA-- Today the first eggs hatched here at Cape Royds, a few days later than the timing of this event last year. The colony is eerily quiet. Seems like there should be some… {Read More »}


The Barrier to Lake Conway

By Nadine Quintana Krupinski · December 16, 2007 · comments 2 comments
In this audio dispatch I describe our team's attempt to travel to Lake Conway, one of the sites where we were planning to place our GPS instruments. On the way there, however, our team found… {Read More »}

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