"Men wanted for hazardous journey. Low wages, bitter cold, long hours of complete darkness. Safe return doubtful". – Sir Ernest Shackleton
This week was focused on cleaning and turning in all field gear, finishing our End of Season reports, and getting ready to redeploy back to Christchurch. Originally, I was scheduled to head out on the 20th, then the 16th, and now the 14th! With the summer season coming to a…
This week has been a whirlwind of being busy! As mentioned last week, I was supposed to be leaving out last Saturday, but for a slew of reasons (weather, plane availability, crew rest, maintenance, etc.), we finally ALL got out on Thursday back to McMurdo. Which was fitting since the…
It’s wild that we’ve almost come to the end of our time out in the field. This week was focused on getting everything winterized and closing up camp before heading out, allegedly, next week. While the weather is generally unfavorable here in the summer, it can dump up to 20…
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…