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Crevasse Safety and Mental llusions

By Nadine Quintana Krupinski · December 6, 2007 · comments 1 comment
Any time we travel to a new area, we take a series of precautions to avoid crevasses. First, we look at high-resolution radar and visible…
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Sighting Lake Mercer, and Skidoo Singing

By Nadine Quintana Krupinski · December 6, 2007 · comments No comments yet
Yesterday we made a trip to Lake Mercer, the second lake of the four lakes we plan to visit during our field work. The lake…
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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…
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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. …
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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…
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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,…
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Preparing for Ice Camp

By Nadine Quintana Krupinski · November 12, 2007 · comments No comments yet
Slawek and I have now been in McMurdo for just over 48 hours. Because of our weather-caused delay, we’re now quite busy making all…
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Finally, On the Ice!

By Nadine Quintana Krupinski · November 11, 2007 · comments No comments yet
After a six-day delay, we arrived yesterday at McMurdo Station, Antarctica. The storm that had been preventing our departure finally cleared, and we had a…
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All Dressed Up and Nowhere to Go

By Nadine Quintana Krupinski · November 8, 2007 · comments No comments yet
We’re currently “stuck” in New Zealand, waiting for the weather to clear at McMurdo Station in Antarctica so we can fly in to begin…
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