ANTARCTIC BLOG: Extreme Geology #4
Geologist 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
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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 […]
