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Nadine Quintana Krupinski studies the dynamics of ice sheets and the waterways that exist under glaciers. She's a glaciology Ph.D. student at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and enjoys working on isolated glaciers in the world's polar regions. Nadine began blogging from Antarctica in November 2007.

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Video Dispatch : Skidoos

By Nadine Quintana Krupinski • January 15th, 2008
In our live webcast at the Exploratorium last weekend (to watch click here, then “Archived Media,” “Ice Stories: Glaciologists WAIS”) we aired some as-of-yet-unseen video dispatches I made at Siple Dome, Antarctica. During the webcast we also mentioned a couple of video dispatches we didn’t…
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Looking Back : The Storm

By Nadine Quintana Krupinski • January 11th, 2008
Slawec and I are both back in Santa Cruz now, and will be doing a live webcast at the Exploratorium tomorrow! In the meantime, I'd like to post some more pictures and videos from our time in the field. Earlier in December, I sent an…
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Antarctic Life: A Look Back At Our Time In the Field, Part 3

By Nadine Quintana Krupinski • December 31st, 2007
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 more photos that help illustrate some of my earlier posts…
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Antarctic Life: A Look Back At Our Time In the Field, Part 2

By Nadine Quintana Krupinski • December 30th, 2007
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 more photos that help illustrate some of my earlier posts…
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Antarctic Life: A Look Back At Our Time In the Field, Part 1

By Nadine Quintana Krupinski • December 28th, 2007
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 from our camp on the West Antarctic Ice Sheet was…
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Finishing Our Field Work

By Nadine Quintana Krupinski • December 18th, 2007
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 this image of Antarctica, you can see the location of…
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The Barrier to Lake Conway

By Nadine Quintana Krupinski • December 16th, 2007
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 a crevasse blocking the route. …
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The Crevasse Encounter

By Nadine Quintana Krupinski • December 9th, 2007
In this audio dispatch I describe our first (and hopefully last!) encounter with a crevasse. …
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The Toilet on the Ice

By Nadine Quintana Krupinski • December 9th, 2007
In this short audio dispatch I describe one thing you might not think about when picturing us living on the ice—our toilet. Listen as I describe the process of putting up our Toilet Tent, pictured below. Our toilet tent. We keep the flaps open so…
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