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Valley of the Dead?: November 2008
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Valley of the Dead? Saturday, November 15, 2008. Life in the "Valley of the Dead? After a scenic helicopter flight across McMurdo Sound, and up the Taylor Valley, our crew landed at Lake Fryxell to set up camp. The lake is covered in about 12 feet of ice (which we drilled through 4 separate times) and is surrounded by mountain peaks, scouring glaciers, and an impressive desert landscape. Once out on the lake, the ice varies in topography: along the shoreline, it is completely smooth and transparent, but,...
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Valley of the Dead?: Life in the "Valley of the Dead?"
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Valley of the Dead? Saturday, November 15, 2008. Life in the "Valley of the Dead? After a scenic helicopter flight across McMurdo Sound, and up the Taylor Valley, our crew landed at Lake Fryxell to set up camp. The lake is covered in about 12 feet of ice (which we drilled through 4 separate times) and is surrounded by mountain peaks, scouring glaciers, and an impressive desert landscape. Once out on the lake, the ice varies in topography: along the shoreline, it is completely smooth and transparent, but,...
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Valley of the Dead?: Drill Baby Drill!
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Valley of the Dead? Tuesday, December 2, 2008. We've scoured away steel bits, left a salvage yard of exhausted melting equipment, and successfully drilled our way through 100 feet of lake ice! Governor Palin would be proud. Our crew has been working up and down the Taylor Valley, winching up water samples from all different depths! Team" managed to stay on schedule and collect our samples. Bacteria from East Lake Bonney. Shown below is a sediment trap, which was at the base of Lake Bonney for three years...
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Valley of the Dead?: December 2008
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Valley of the Dead? Tuesday, December 2, 2008. We've scoured away steel bits, left a salvage yard of exhausted melting equipment, and successfully drilled our way through 100 feet of lake ice! Governor Palin would be proud. Our crew has been working up and down the Taylor Valley, winching up water samples from all different depths! Team" managed to stay on schedule and collect our samples. Bacteria from East Lake Bonney. Shown below is a sediment trap, which was at the base of Lake Bonney for three years...
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Valley of the Dead?: Happy Camper
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Valley of the Dead? Wednesday, October 29, 2008. The sun shined all night through my dorm room window, and I still had no trouble sleeping. And luckily so, as I needed some rest before my first day of Antarctic Survival School, aka: Happy Camper. I can now completely assemble, repair, clean, and dismantle our MSR Wisperlights piece by piece. So if something does fail, whether it be a fuel line freezing or an o-ring cracking, there is no need to worry (mom). However, a few of us chose to dig and carve sno...
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Valley of the Dead?: October 2008
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Valley of the Dead? Friday, October 31, 2008. So these last couple days have been pretty exciting! Film crew from the BBC is working literally right across the hall from our lab! Right now, they are diving and filming underwater lifeforms living in the extremely cold ocean environment. These guys are spectacular cinematographers, world renowned, and right next door! I've had a pretty lucky streak going lately. Quite the jump-start to any film career! I headed out to the scuba shed (IMAX camera in hand!
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Valley of the Dead?: January 2009
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Valley of the Dead? Wednesday, January 14, 2009. A Farewell to Antarctica. Northbound, 30,000 feet above the Transantarctic Mountains. So its been a while since my last posting, and in the meantime, I've traveled over 10,000 miles, experienced over a 120 degreesF in temperature changes, sampled over a 100 liters of the most pristine, ancient lake water accessible on the planet, and have learned to appreciate any additional color to white! Down on the sea ice, the view once crawling out of an ice-cave:.
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Valley of the Dead?: MacTown
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Valley of the Dead? Wednesday, November 5, 2008. Bordering the shores of a frozen-over ocean, tucked under the world's most southernly active volcano, and alien colony to the occasional lost Adelie penguin, lies McMurdo Station, aka: "MacTown.". I'll be flying in and out of the base a few separate times (restocking food, repairing engines, analyzing data, working in the lab, and enjoying heated buildings and showers! Here's a quick look around the base:. The outskirts of town. Troll under the bridge.
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Valley of the Dead?: BBC Filming!
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Valley of the Dead? Friday, October 31, 2008. So these last couple days have been pretty exciting! Film crew from the BBC is working literally right across the hall from our lab! Right now, they are diving and filming underwater lifeforms living in the extremely cold ocean environment. These guys are spectacular cinematographers, world renowned, and right next door! I've had a pretty lucky streak going lately. Quite the jump-start to any film career! I headed out to the scuba shed (IMAX camera in hand!