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Mission from Siple Dome

By Slawek Tulaczyk · December 6, 2007 · comments No comments yet
In this audio dispatch, I describe how we were grounded at the Siple Dome airstrip on our way to our field site. As the weather… {Read More »}


Measuring the Lakes beneath the Ice

By Slawek Tulaczyk · December 6, 2007 · comments 3 comments
In this audio dispatch, I describe the work we have been doing since finally reaching our field site. … {Read More »}


Unbreakable Beaker: A Scientist’s Life at South Pole Station

By Kathryn Schaffer Miknaitis · December 5, 2007 · comments No comments yet
The entire South Pole Station exists solely to support science that can only be done in this unique location. The support is phenomenal, from the… {Read More »}


Flying to Whillans Ice Stream at Last

By Nadine Quintana Krupinski · December 4, 2007 · comments 1 comment
Yesterday the pilots arrived at Siple Dome at 12:45pm, and they were eager to load the plane and take off as soon as possible. To… {Read More »}


Incubating Penguin Eggs and Melting Ice

By David Ainley · December 3, 2007 · comments No comments yet
The penguins are deep in thought incubating their eggs. The fast ice that we can see out our front door is beginning to break apart.… {Read More »}


I Think I See a Lake under 800 Meters of Ice

By Nadine Quintana Krupinski · December 3, 2007 · comments No comments yet
Yesterday we traveled to the first of the four sub-glacial lakes we plan to visit to install GPS instruments and run radar transects. This lake,… {Read More »}

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