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Meet Lou, Our Driller

By Zoe Courville · September 11, 2009 ·

HANOVER, NEW HAMPSHIRE-- Lou is our amazing driller for the traverse. Luckily for us, she is one of the best drillers in the business, having worked both in Greenland and Antarctica...

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Meet Svein, Our Mechanic

By Zoe Courville · September 9, 2009 ·

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HANOVER, NEW HAMPSHIRE-- On a 4 month trip across Antarctica with 12 people, everyone has a pretty crucial job to perform. But some of us are more essential...

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First Flight

By John Cassano · September 8, 2009 ·

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MCMURDO STATION, ANTARCTICA-- Our reason for being in Antarctica is to fly small unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), known as Aerosondes, to make measurements of the atmosphere and ocean over the Terra Nova Bay polynya. Today we took a major step towards that goal when...

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A Rare Greenlandic Snow Penguin Sighting

By Zoe Courville · September 4, 2009 ·

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NEEM CAMP, GREENLAND-- The question that I probably get asked most often (besides “did you see any penguins?”) about my trips to the poles is what evidence I’ve seen for climate change...

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Daily Life in McMurdo

By John Cassano · September 1, 2009 ·

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MCMURDO STATION, ANTARCTICA-- We’ve been in Antarctic for just about a week now. Much of our time since we’ve arrived has been spent unpacking, setting…

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Gentoo Penguins on King George Island

By Cassandra Brooks · September 1, 2009 ·

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BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS-- In anticipation of the next upcoming AMLR field season in January 2010, I put together a slide show of a Gentoo penguin colony. The colony resides at the Copacabana field camp on King George Island...

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To Antarctica

By John Cassano · August 27, 2009 ·

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MCMURDO STATION, ANTARCTICA-- I’ve spent the last 4 days in transit from the US to Antarctica. I left home midday on Saturday (22 August), flying from Denver to San Francisco to Auckland, New Zealand...

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Bad Weather and the JR

By Doug LaVigne · August 26, 2009 ·

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ABOARD THE JOIDES RESOLUTION, ON THE BERING SEA-- One of our readers there posted a great question in response to my posts regarding the incoming Typhoon Vamco approaching us from the South. I consulted the Captain and...

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In the Trenches

By Zoe Courville · August 25, 2009 ·

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NEEM CAMP, GREENLAND-- Over at the deep drilling site, work continues day and night. There are two shifts of drillers and core handlers who work around the clock...

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Sunset and Beacon Catch

By Doug LaVigne · August 25, 2009 ·

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ABOARD THE JOIDES RESOLUTION, ON THE BERING SEA-- It’s amazing how after two months on a boat with the same people day in and day out how your nerves start to get a little rattled. Not that we aren’t getting along, it’s just the lack of something new...

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