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A Day Out the Window of the Lab

By Stacy Kim · October 18, 2009 ·

MCMURDO STATION, ANTARCTICA-- Our lab is way too busy and crowded to allow this, but the lab with the shared fume hood is not yet occupied, so I was able to set up the camera on a tripod and catch the changing light and activity in front of the station...

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Drilling the Sea Ice

By Stacy Kim · October 9, 2009 ·

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MCMURDO STATION, ANTARCTICA-- Drilling a hole through 7 m (21 ft) of sea ice is the first step in Antarctic diving....

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Tomorrow the Journey Starts

By Stacy Kim · October 8, 2009 ·

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MCMURDO STATION, ANTARCTICA-- Last Wednesday the Main Team left Moss Landing, bound for Antarctica. But before leaving, I played one last morning of beach volleyball - as I won't get much beach in my volleyball down south! Here is a short video...

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First UAV Flight in East Antarctica

By Zoe Courville · September 25, 2009 ·

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HANOVER, NEW HAMPSHIRE-- Andreas Tollefsen of Norut (Northern Research Institute) in Norway, was in charge of flying the UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) we had along with us on the traverse. The UAV carried a payload of...

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Terra Nova Bay or Bust

By John Cassano · September 16, 2009 ·

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MCMURDO STATION, ANTARCTICA-- It has been a slow, and sometimes frustrating, effort to get our first successful science flight of the project, but we did succeed last night...

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Visitors on the Antarctic Plateau

By Zoe Courville · September 16, 2009 ·

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HANOVER, NEW HAMPSHIRE-- In the middle of our traverse, we had the rather surreal experience of being visited by a French film crew making a documentary about research work in Antarctica. The crew flew in on a Basler...

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Meet SCINI

By Stacy Kim · September 15, 2009 ·

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MOSS LANDING, CALIFORNIA-- Last austral summer, SCINI engineer (also my husband) Bob Zook and I met up with the Exploratorium's Ice Stories team at McMurdo Station, Antarctica, for a live webcast about the SCINI project...

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Meet Ole, Our Doctor

By Zoe Courville · September 14, 2009 ·

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HANOVER, NEW HAMPSHIRE-- Our traverse doctor, Ole Tveiten, luckily did not have much to do as a doctor, so he was put to work logging the cores, measuring and weighing them...

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Meet Lou, Our Driller

By Zoe Courville · September 11, 2009 ·

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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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