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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… {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… {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… {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… {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… {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)… {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… {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… {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… {Read More »}

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