Dec 18, 2020
The last two weeks have been a whirlwind. My days have been filled with work and hanging out with my fellow Polies.First, work!There are six experiments that I maintain (though three of them won’t get turned on until March or April when it starts getting darker). The...
Nov 29, 2020
I had woken up early so that I could go get coffee (well, really I woke up early because my scheduled transport time to the airfield was 0730 but I woke up earlier than that so that I could get coffee). Then the waiting began. Just sitting, watching the transport...
Nov 25, 2020
And just like that my flight is next. After 26 days (out of a scheduled 11) in McMurdo and watching three planes of Polies fly south, this morning it was finally time for me to haul my bags up the hill to be weighed.For all that it has felt like it was dragging on at...
Nov 24, 2020
McMurdo is not the only base on Ross Island. Just on the other side of Observation Hill is Scott Base, New Zealand’s station in Antarctica. To get there from McMurdo you can either take the road over the hill or walk around the hill on the ice shelf, and while the...
Nov 20, 2020
McMurdo is home to the Antarctic Fire Department (AFD). Up to a few dozen firefighters live and work here on contracts ranging from 3 to 13 months keeping people safe and putting out fires (usually small ones!) when they arise.However, there is no fire department at...
