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 6: We made it!!!!!
Dec 25: Christmas! After a lovely morning of sleeping in, the team gathered for brunch before the galley closed for the day in prep for Christmas dinner. We had signed up for a 5pm dinner timeslot so we had to survive off brunch and snacks until then. I opened some lovely letters from family and […]
Week 3: Cargo cargo cargo
Dec 5: Snow day!!! We woke up to a beautiful and dangerous snowstorm today! There was only about 1 inch of snow throughout town but weather was bad enough for the town to go into a special weather condition. Due to the bad weather, our meeting about food for our time in the field was […]