ANTARCTIC BLOG: Science from the air #4
Culture shock Just over two weeks ago I was writing this blog hunched up in a mountain tent, having not washed for a week, and with the company of just […]
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ANTARCTIC BLOG: Science from the air #3
Read more of: ANTARCTIC BLOG: Science from the air #3One week on from departing Rothera into the field and the first leg of the PolarGAP survey at FD83 is almost over, I get to sit back, relax a bit […]
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ANTARCTIC BLOG: Extreme Geology #6
Read more of: ANTARCTIC BLOG: Extreme Geology #6The challenges of glacier travel The ANiSEED project field area lies between two of the most rapidly changing glaciers in Antarctica, the Smith and Kohler Glaciers. These have thinned more […]
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ANTARCTIC BLOG: Science from the air #2
Read more of: ANTARCTIC BLOG: Science from the air #2The altimeter in the front of the Twin Otter aircraft is showing 8500 ft as we cruise due south from Rothera research station for the next leg in our PolarGAP […]
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ANTARCTIC BLOG: Extreme Geology #5
Read more of: ANTARCTIC BLOG: Extreme Geology #5Greetings from Marie Byrd Land! The waiting is over….we finally arrived at our field site on 11th December, after a 4 hour flight from Sky Blu one of BAS’s fuel […]
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ANTARCTIC BLOG: Polar guide tackles the long wait #6
Read more of: ANTARCTIC BLOG: Polar guide tackles the long wait #6Life in Antarctica can be difficult but strangely the more difficult it is, the easier it becomes. Life starts to be simple. One only has to do whatever it takes. The […]
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ANTARCTIC BLOG: Ocean meets air #1
Read more of: ANTARCTIC BLOG: Ocean meets air #1Welcome to my blog. My name is Thomas Barningham and I’m currently in the third year of my PhD at the University of East Anglia. My work aims to understand […]
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ANTARCTIC BLOG: Extreme Geology #4
Read more of: ANTARCTIC BLOG: Extreme Geology #4Geologist Jo Johnson waits patiently to go deep-field
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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 […]
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ANTARCTIC BLOG: Polar guide arrives on site #5
Read more of: ANTARCTIC BLOG: Polar guide arrives on site #5As we finally approached our input site I could see our future home in the distance, a little black dot on a frozen white ocean, slowly growing in size as […]
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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 […]
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ANTARCTIC BLOG: Changing of the seasons
Read more of: ANTARCTIC BLOG: Changing of the seasonsNew summer season starts at Halley
