Posts Tagged ‘McMurdo Station’
Waiting for a Flight out of McMurdo
Many people here have stories of boomerangs, delays and canceled flights trying to get to or from Antarctica. So I must embrace my situation as a quintessential experience of visiting The Ice. I was originally scheduled to fly out of McMurdo Station for Christchurch, New Zealand on January 5th. This process began the evening before…
Read MoreAnother Blog about WAIS Divide
McMurdo Station – Happy New Year! I am working on a few blog posts for the new year, so stay tuned. In the meantime, check out the blog of a science graduate student Heidi Roop, who is working at WAIS. She is sponsored by the Exploratorium in San Francisco and took great video equipment into…
Read MoreFarewell to WAIS – Hello IceStock
December 31, 2009 WAIS Divide Camp at 79.47° S latitude, 112.06 W° longitude – high on the West Antarctic Ice Sheet Plateau. I am sending off 2009 with a flight out of WAIS Camp to McMurdo Station. It will seem like the tropics to me since it is above freezing there. Though I am sad…
Read MoreWaiting to go to WAIS
uh-oh! The day of my flight, there is ground fog! It is a bit hard to see in this photo, but look at that swath of purplish-blue between the mountains and the sea ice. I am not due to go out until 14:15, so maybe this will burn off, but I suspect it is not…
Read MoreHappy Camper continued. . .
The next day, I awoke early, so got the whisperlite stoves going and soon we had hot water for cocoa, instant coffee and oatmeal – yummy. The rest of the morning went by quickly. We broke camp and then practiced calling MacOps (radio into headquarters). “MacOps, MacOps, MacOps – this is Happy Camper, do you…
Read MoreHappy Camper School – Ross Ice Shelf – Day One
Friday morning I and nine other lucky souls began Happy Camper School with our very clever Kiwi (New Zealand) instructor Billy. She is in the light green jacket. Fortunately, it was a Ski Doo camping experience, so we didn’t have to haul our stuff out onto the Ross Ice Shelf, where we spent the next…
Read MoreMcMurdo –
I am slowly getting used to the layout and pace of the station. I have been walking around jetlagged and sleep deprived, so all of the new information is going in slowly, most of it dropping all around me. The folks who work here know this and remind me to take it easy. There is…
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