Melissa On the Ice

As part of my job, I study the atmospheric dynamics over the Transantarctic Mountains and the Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica. I am fortunate to have the opportunity to travel to Antarctica for a third time as part of the automatic weather station project. For this project, a group of four scientists, including myself, will work to install, remove and repair the weather stations around the continent. This blog will outline our activities for approximately the next seven weeks.

Thursday, January 15, 2009

Helo Ride

Yesterday John, Shelley and I got out for a helicopter (aka helo) ride. It was a "ride" because we never got to our final destination, the Linda and Ferrel AWS sites. We took off, but the fog/clouds were so bad over the ice shelf that the pilot could no longer see the horizon to tell which way was up. It was a fun ride though.

Here is a picture of White Island and you can see some of the fog infront of it.

Here is a picture on our way back to McMurdo where the ice shelf meets the sea ice. There are some seals surrounding the meltponds.

1 comment:

Mike MatsonJanuary 16, 2009 at 9:48 PM
Such a cool shot! How amazing to get to fly over such a unique landscape. Thanks for all the great posts!
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