ANTARCTIC BLOG: Changing of the seasons
New summer season starts at Halley
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ANTARCTIC BLOG: Extreme Geology #3
Read more of: ANTARCTIC BLOG: Extreme Geology #3Being a parent working in Antarctica
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ANTARCTIC BLOG: Extreme Geology #2
Read more of: ANTARCTIC BLOG: Extreme Geology #2A long drive ahead….update from polar guides preparing for a geology project in remote Marie Byrd Land Whilst Steve Roberts and I are preparing to depart the UK for Rothera […]
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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 […]
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ANTARCTIC BLOG: Breeding season begins on Bird Island
Read more of: ANTARCTIC BLOG: Breeding season begins on Bird IslandOctober is another busy month for bird work, with the feathered residents of Bird Island all returning and starting to breed. Almost all of the Northern giant petrels are now […]
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ANTARCTIC BLOG: The journey South is long – #2
Read more of: ANTARCTIC BLOG: The journey South is long – #2“Goodbyes” get harder each time so I avoid them by saying “See you later” as if I’m just going to the shop. The journey South is long and for me […]
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ANTARCTIC BLOG: Busy month for leopard seal sightings!
Read more of: ANTARCTIC BLOG: Busy month for leopard seal sightings!Leopard seal peak The penultimate month of the lep round has been by far the most exciting. September has been the busiest month yet for leopard seal sightings. It has […]
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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 […]
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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.
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ANTARCTIC BLOG: Extreme Geology #1
Read more of: ANTARCTIC BLOG: Extreme Geology #1Science team goes deep field to Marie Byrd Land
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ANTARCTIC BLOG: Leopard seals, wanderer chicks and…superheroes?!
Read more of: ANTARCTIC BLOG: Leopard seals, wanderer chicks and…superheroes?!When I last wrote a web diary, back in April, it was at the end of the summer season and the first few intrepid weeks of winter. It’s hard to […]
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ARCTIC BLOG: Life on the Petermann Ice Shelf, Greenland
Read more of: ARCTIC BLOG: Life on the Petermann Ice Shelf, GreenlandBasically, it was riches beyond my wildest dreams. There’s nothing financial about it, but the feeling of a shower and knowing that your next meal will be a three course […]
