ANTARCTIC BLOG: Extreme Geology #4
Geologist Jo Johnson waits patiently to go deep-field
37 to 48 of 156 results
-
Read more of: ANTARCTIC BLOG: Extreme Geology #4
-
ANTARCTIC BLOG: Science from the air #1
Read more of: ANTARCTIC BLOG: Science from the air #1Tom Jordan is part of the PolarGAP project, an ambitious international collaboration which will use airborne geophysics to explore one of the last known frontiers on our planet – the […]
-
ANTARCTIC BLOG: Polar guide flies into the field – #4
Read more of: ANTARCTIC BLOG: Polar guide flies into the field – #4A week after iBeam departed, our aircraft arrived at Sky-Blu from Rothera to take us further into the field, to our winterised vehicles, to our start point. The call sign […]
-
ANTARCTIC BLOG: Polar guide reaches the ice – #3
Read more of: ANTARCTIC BLOG: Polar guide reaches the ice – #3The FISS project is huge on a logistical scale. Drilling through an eight hundred meter ice shelf and providing support and equipment for several seismic, radar and instrument inputs and […]
-
ANTARCTIC BLOG: Tales from a polar guide – #1
Read more of: ANTARCTIC BLOG: Tales from a polar guide – #1It’s four AM and I’m wide awake, staring at the deep blue and black shadows on the ceiling of my bedroom. I allow myself just this once to indulge in […]
-
GUEST BLOG: Ready for Antarctic trip number five!
Read more of: GUEST BLOG: Ready for Antarctic trip number five!Find out about NERC Research Fellow Dr Sian Henley’s preparations for her fifth visit to Rothera Research Station and what she looks forward to onboard the RRS James Clark Ross.
-
Rothera Diary – November 2014
Read more of: Rothera Diary – November 2014October saw the arrival of the first Dash 7 of the season containing the first of the summer staff, and quite a few other planes from different Antarctic programs. It […]
-
Rothera Diary – October 2014
Read more of: Rothera Diary – October 2014The End is Nigh! In 12 days the first planes will arrive, invading us with who knows what? Well we have a pretty good idea. We are looking forward to […]
-
Rothera Diary – August 2014
Read more of: Rothera Diary – August 2014August has been another busy month on and off the base, with the second round of winter trips starting at the beginning of the month. Mine and Andy’s winter trip […]
-
Rothera Diary – May 2014
Read more of: Rothera Diary – May 2014May has been a busy month at Rothera, with the weather starting to get a bit more wintery and Antarctic – less rain(!) and more snow and darkness. We are […]
-
Rothera Diary – April 2014
Read more of: Rothera Diary – April 2014The RRS Ernest Shackleton left us on the 21st of March this year so April saw the first month of winter here at Rothera. We are getting used to a […]
-
Rothera Diary – July 2013
Read more of: Rothera Diary – July 2013Midwinter Roundup The days got shorter and shorter, the sun stopped appearing over the mountainous horizon and the snow continued to fall; winter was well and truly here at Rothera […]