Week 8: Sundogs in Antarctica
Jan 8: Eager to EAGER Today’s shenanigans involved starting up the EAGER radar early in the morning. Ellen and I planned to get out and complete a PulseEKKO and EAGER transect from camp to the 25 cm site. The PulseEKKO is a profiling radar which collects data of the subsurface in the direction that it’s […]
Week 2: McMurdo Station
Nov 28: Arrival This morning, we prepped for another flight with 6 am wake-up for a 9 am flight. Since we’d already checked our bags before our unfortunate boomerang yesterday, we could sleep in a bit. The plane was hot, stuffy, and uncomfortable again and the Italian Air Force was stricter about enforcing proper carry-on […]
Week 1: From Seattle to Antarctica?
Nov 19 – 21: Seattle to Christchurch Before leaving Seattle, I checked and double-checked to ensure that I had all of my gear. I checked in at the airport quite early since I’m carrying expensive scientific equipment and have some special paperwork to fill out with customs and border patrol. I met up with Ellen, […]
Week 0: I’m going to Antarctica!
Welcome to the start of my series of posts about my first Antarctic field season! I’ll be posting every week with some updates about what my team and I have been up to on the day-to-day. I’m a second-year PhD student at the University of Washington who uses remote sensing and machine learning to study […]