Cape Evans
It has been a long discussion in the past week or so if we would have helicopter time to go to Cape Evans. With the helicopter flights to...
Ice edge flight!
That was one once in a lifetime experience. There are different factors that organisms living in the ice edge might be exposed to...
Counting colonies
It was nice to have a day off, and it gave us a new perspective when coming back to work. I find it nice, and important to step out for a...
First Day off: Castle Rock!
The anticipation of the day off made us all very happy and more inclined to have a late night. After being all cozy in bed reading my...
Pteropod dissection
Waking up was hard, but I am glad made it to the lecture which was very interesting. More lab work for me, I finished “dissecting” all...
Midnight sun
Today was even longer than yesterday, Tess and I left the lab after 12:20. But at least we got a chance to take a photo of the sun at...
Lab day
Today was a very long day in the lab, resting metabolic rate measurements, dissecting and preparing to count bacterial cells and getting...
Arrival Heights and Prohibition
After a morning of lab work, incubating gut contents of amphipods and then filtering it for our control, our group visited the Arrival...
Polynya and Hiking in the Wind
Because of the conditions of the ice our previous sampling area on the ice is closed. The canal the icebreaker made is open and there is...
Snow!
We woke up to white McMurdo, a beautiful white layer was covering the station and the observatory hill. Because of the low visibility,...
