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First UAV Flight in East Antarctica

By Zoe Courville · September 25, 2009 · comments No comments yet
HANOVER, NEW HAMPSHIRE-- Andreas Tollefsen of Norut (Northern Research Institute) in Norway, was in charge of flying the UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) we had along with us on the traverse. The UAV carried a payload of... {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 »}


Visitors on the Antarctic Plateau

By Zoe Courville · September 16, 2009 · comments No comments yet
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 »}


Meet Ole, Our Doctor

By Zoe Courville · September 14, 2009 · comments No comments yet
HANOVER, NEW HAMPSHIRE-- Our traverse doctor, Ole Tveiten, luckily did not have much to do as a doctor, so he was put to work logging the cores, measuring and weighing them... {Read More »}


Meet Lou, Our Driller

By Zoe Courville · September 11, 2009 · comments No comments yet
HANOVER, NEW HAMPSHIRE-- Lou is our amazing driller for the traverse. Luckily for us, she is one of the best drillers in the business, having worked both in Greenland and Antarctica... {Read More »}


Meet Svein, Our Mechanic

By Zoe Courville · September 9, 2009 · comments No comments yet
HANOVER, NEW HAMPSHIRE-- On a 4 month trip across Antarctica with 12 people, everyone has a pretty crucial job to perform. But some of us are more essential... {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 »}


Sunset and Beacon Catch

By Doug LaVigne · August 25, 2009 · comments No comments yet
ABOARD THE JOIDES RESOLUTION, ON THE BERING SEA-- It’s amazing how after two months on a boat with the same people day in and day out how your nerves start to get a little rattled. Not that we aren’t getting along, it’s just the lack of something new... {Read More »}


High Flying Fun

By Doug LaVigne · August 19, 2009 · comments No comments yet
ABOARD THE JOIDES RESOLUTION, ON THE BERING SEA-- It was remarkable how many people showed up for the kite contest today. Before long the heli-deck was packed.... {Read More »}


Video Tour of the JR

By Doug LaVigne · August 9, 2009 · comments No comments yet
ABOARD THE JOIDES RESOLUTION, ON THE BERING SEA-- Drilling is going very smoothly on site U1343. We are almost done with hole C at this site. If things continue... {Read More »}

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