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.

Monday, January 5, 2009

Off to Snow School

I am off to snow school this morning. I have about 3 bags of gear packed and ready to go. This is not like the light gear backpacking that I'm used to. All that I know so far is that we will have one hour of classroom training and then we head out to the field. I believe that we will be trained on some things out there and then the instructors will leave us for the night. It should be fun. I'm really excited. I will report more when I get back.

Melis

1 comment:

KatieJanuary 5, 2009 at 12:35 PM
I don't know what time or what day it is there now that I am reading this but have fun! Can't wait to hear how it goes!

Love Katie
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