To start out this week, I got a few questions that I’ve answered below. Feel free to keep them coming my way! Happy to talk about my experience. What kind of science research are you and the group doing? We we supposed to have two science group come out to…

This week was quite busy and went by fairly quickly, but without a lot of flights. Monday was suppose to bring out our science group and Tuesday bringing out Twin Otter aircraft to support them. However, despite being on the flight schedule twice a day, no LC-130 has been able…

Busy week this week here at WAIS Divide! The week started out with a 16 hour work day for me (0800-0000) and then back at 0800 the next day, due to flight operations. As of now, they are working to send us one LC-130 a day, typically in the morning,…

Happy New Year!!! 2025 was not at all what I was expecting it to be. At this time last year, I was still waiting on my start date at NAVO, taking one final trip beforehand (Train across the country, up the coast, and then to Alaska). I figured my year…

Title is in reference to the call signs of the flights we had this week 🙂 Monday kicked off my turn for the early morning observing shifts. When we have LC-130 flights scheduled, hourly observations are required to start 6 hours prior to the scheduled take off time with SPECI…

We are finally at WAIS Divide!!!! They decided to reallocated the LC-130’s from the South Pole to try and get everyone out here and with TWO LC flights in one day, we got everyone (including our carpenters, electrician, utility folks that come out for about a week to get some…

Monday was FINALLY the day Team 1 took off for WAIS Divide! The whole base was so excited for us that they made us a picture and THREE exclamation points when they were activated. I am apart of Team 2, and as of now, we were originally scheduled to go…

Not too much to share this week. Some logistical priorities changed in addition to some personnel swaps which delayed us early in the week. Then, bad weather rolled back in to close out the window of opportunity of getting out later this week. Additionally, I finally caught some of the…

Some weather moved into McMurdo, so flights were cancelled once again….Then there was some reallocation of aircraft needs later in the week that couldn’t get our first group out. So continuing our delay… However, we made the most of our time here, so when we were not working, we got…

Well, we are still here at McMurdo….weather at the field camp location has been unfavorable for flight ops the entire week. The forecast this week is much improved at our field location, but expecting worsening conditions here at McMurdo…so we shall see. Would love to be out of here this…