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25 November, 2015 Ashly Fusiarski
A 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 …
Read more on ANTARCTIC BLOG: Polar guide flies into the field – #4
20 November, 2015 Thomas Welsh
New summer season starts at Halley
19 November, 2015 Joanne Johnson
Being a parent working in Antarctica
12 November, 2015 Joanne Johnson
A 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 …
10 November, 2015 Ashly Fusiarski
The 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 …
Read more on ANTARCTIC BLOG: Polar guide reaches the ice – #3
10 November, 2015 Alastair Wilson
October 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 …
Read more on ANTARCTIC BLOG: Breeding season begins on Bird Island
6 November, 2015 Ashly Fusiarski
“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 …
27 October, 2015 Sian Tarrant
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 …
Read more on ANTARCTIC BLOG: Busy month for leopard seal sightings!
26 October, 2015 Ashly Fusiarski
It’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 …
21 October, 2015 Sian Henley
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.
Read more on GUEST BLOG: Ready for Antarctic trip number five!