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Beth BurtonBeth Burton is a geophysicist with the United States Geological Survey. She has extensive field experience in the application of multiple surface-based geophysical methods to help solve various environmental and engineering problems, and this will be her first season in Antarctica. She will be aiding in the acquisition of airborne geophysical data as part of the AGAP GAMBIT project.

Project Page: Mapping the Last Mountain Range on Earth

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The Shackleton Nimrod Expedition Relived

MCMURDO STATION, ANTARCTICA-- In just the short time that I have spent in McMurdo, I have experienced many amazing things, most of them for the first time. And today was no different. A couple of us from our science team joined about 40 other people from town in meeting an expedition team as they passed through on their way to the South Pole... {Read More »}