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Field Deployment

By Lucas Beem · January 8, 2010 · comments No comments yet
WHILLANS ICE STREAM, ANTARCTICA-- We landed at our field site after a three hour flight from McMurdo Station. Climbing out of the plane we were in a white flat expanse... {Read More »}


Interview with the Outgoing South Pole Winter-over

By Nick Morgan · November 4, 2009 · comments 8 comments
SOUTH POLE, ANTARCTICA-- Well, after numerous weather delays, I arrived at the South Pole on October 27th. The previous winter-overs running the Atmospheric Research Observatory, LTJG Marc Weekley and engineer Patrick Cullis, were there to greet me at the ski-way... {Read More »}


Visitors on the Antarctic Plateau

By Zoe Courville · September 16, 2009 · comments 1 comment
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... {Read More »}


One Month in the Deep Field, Part 1

By Jake Walter · December 20, 2008 · comments No comments yet
ABOARD AN LC-130 EN ROUTE TO CHRISTCHURCH, NEW ZEALAND-- It’s with a heavy heart that I climb aboard “Ivan the Terra” bus to get transported to Willy Field and off the Antarctic continent... {Read More »}


If All Goes According to Plan…

By Zoe Courville · November 26, 2008 · comments 4 comments
SOUTH POLE STATION, ANTARCTICA-- The Basler plane we've been waiting for finally came, from McMurdo, and we were able to load it up and send it off to Camp Winter with cargo... {Read More »}


The Recon Flight and Sastrugi Problem

By Zoe Courville · November 21, 2008 · comments No comments yet
SOUTH POLE STATION, ANTARCTICA-- Last week, a reconnaissance flight over the vehicles determined that the surface out there is too rough to land for the Basler aircraft we were scheduled to take on Saturday... {Read More »}