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Wrapping Up

By John Cassano · September 28, 2009 · comments 2 comments
MCMURDO STATION, ANTARCTICA-- Our project is just about over. We flew our last two flights on Sunday and are scheduled to fly back to New… {Read More »}


First Look

By John Cassano · September 21, 2009 · comments No comments yet
MCMURDO STATION, ANTARCTICA-- We’ve completed our second successful science flight to Terra Nova Bay Friday night into Saturday morning. This was a 16.5 hour flight… {Read More »}


Terra Nova Bay or Bust

By John Cassano · September 16, 2009 · comments 9 comments
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... {Read More »}


First Flight

By John Cassano · September 8, 2009 · comments 2 comments
MCMURDO STATION, ANTARCTICA-- Our reason for being in Antarctica is to fly small unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), known as Aerosondes, to make measurements of the atmosphere and ocean over the Terra Nova Bay polynya. Today we took a major step towards that goal when... {Read More »}


Will the Banded Birds Please Stand Up!

By David Ainley · November 26, 2008 · comments 2 comments
CAPE ROYDS, ROSS ISLAND, ANTARCTICA– The major trust of our project is to quantify the vital rates of Adélie Penguins in their changing world, as global climate change proceeds. Vital rates means such things as age of first breeding, proportion of years in which they breed... {Read More »}