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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 light satellite images that show many of the crevasses and… {Read More »}


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 has been informally named Lake Mercer because it’s located on… {Read More »}


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 would not permit us to continue for at least three… {Read More »}

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