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The Early Returns: We and the Penguins

By David Ainley · November 24, 2008 · comments 1 comment
CAPE ROYDS, ROSS ISLAND, ANTARCTICA-- This season, Jean came down to McMurdo Station a few weeks early with the idea of setting up a time-lapse camera at Cape Royds to record the complete cycle of colony formation as penguins returned from their wintering area... {Read More »}


Journey to Our Field Camp

By Howie Koss · November 18, 2008 · comments 5 comments
OFFSHORE NEW HARBOR CAMP, ANTARCTICA-- This video captures the energy and excitement of our traverse across the sea ice to the Offshore New Harbor Field Camp... {Read More »}


Don’t Fall in That Crack

By Jake Walter · November 18, 2008 · comments No comments yet
MCMURDO STATION, ANTARCTICA-- Imagine yourself driving a snowmobile in bone-chilling cold, upon a windswept snowfield, in Antarctica, your body is weary and you look forward to collapsing into your sleeping bag. Suddenly, the snowmobile in… {Read More »}