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Becker Point

By Stacy Kim · January 21, 2010 ·

BECKER POINT, ANTARCTICA-- Our second field camp was on the continent itself – dirt! I have to say that I prefer camping on the sea ice, but this late in the season, the likelihood of warm days and slushy surfaces would make that a distinctly wet possibility... {Read More »}

Setting Up Camp

By Lucas Beem · January 8, 2010 ·

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WHILLANS ICE STREAM, ANTARCTICA-- The first order of business was to set up camp. First we collected all our gear at our chosen site and pitched our cook tent... {Read More »}

Field Deployment

By Lucas Beem · January 8, 2010 ·

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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 »}

Greywater and Waste

By Doug Kowalewski · January 5, 2010 ·

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BEACON VALLEY, ANTARCTICA- One of the more common questions that I am asked regarding the field camping experience is how do we dispose of our waste in such an environmentally protected region of the world? Nothing can be released into the soil. Everything must be contained and returned to McMurdo... {Read More »}

Tent Time

By Heidi Roop · December 14, 2009 ·

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WAIS DIVIDE, ANTARCTICA: As I am learning first-hand, there is quite an adjustment period to life in the field in Antarctica... {Read More »}

The Question Everyone Wants to Ask but Doesn’t….

By Heidi Roop · December 6, 2009 ·

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WAIS DIVIDE, ANTARCTICA-- I know that I was curious before I got here about many of the in’s and out’s of Antarctic life. One basic aspect of life is using the restroom and I wasn’t exactly sure how that worked down south... {Read More »}

Bay of Sails

By Stacy Kim · November 18, 2009 ·

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BAY OF SAILS, ANTARCTICA– One of the main goals of SCINI is to explore new areas. Our first target this year is Bay of Sails. I selected this general location because it is an “iceberg graveyard." {Read More »}

The Duffel Shuffle

By Heidi Roop · November 5, 2009 ·

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FLAGSTAFF, ARIZONA— We had our first day of snow here in Flagstaff, AZ and it was -5 °C, so I got a small reminder of what it is like to be cold! Not feeling my fingers was a gentle reminder that I better be well prepared for the temperatures at WAIS (West Antarctica Ice Sheet)... {Read More »}

Field Camp

By Stacy Kim · November 3, 2009 ·

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MCMURDO STATION, ANTARCTICA-- We've just returned from 2 weeks at Bay of Sails, where we were deploying SCINI to look at iceberg scours on the seafloor and the destruction, and recovery, of benthic communities there. All our high-tech science and engineering was supported out of the most primitive of camps... {Read More »}

Where in the World Is Ice Stories?

By Mary Miller · June 23, 2009 ·

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Browse the new Ice Stories layer on Google Earth to follow the locations of polar expeditions and research in the Arctic and in Antarctica. {Read More »}

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