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.

Saturday, February 14, 2009

Extra Pics

Here are some extra pics from Antarctica before I move onto the New Zealand trip.

We do use fall protection (at least when it is not packed away in our WAIS cargo)

Snow drift at WAIS

Views from the C130 flight down to Antarctica

Warming up the ski doo before the obstacle course

The MASH replica of the HF radio (I actually saw one of these in a museum in New Zealand as an example of how people "used" to communicate - I just chuckled to myself)

The Christmas lights antennae for the HF radio

The C17 that flew me back to New Zealand

2 comments:

UnknownFebruary 14, 2009 at 3:25 PM
Nice! The fall protection and snow drift shots are especially awesome...
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MelissaFebruary 14, 2009 at 3:49 PM
Travis,

Thanks! I'm anxious to get back into town and catch up with everyone.

Melis
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