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  • Lake Bonney and Taylor Glacier. This is the glacier which Scott descended to discover this Dry Valley in 1903, later named Taylor Valley after geologist Griffith Taylor. Rhone Glacier on right.
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  • Back at Lake Hoare, Renee Noffke and Rae Spain firing up Thomas Nylen's 50th birthday cake. Renee was my guide through all my trekking in the Taylor Valley, a huge Thank You to Renee for taking time from her other duties at Lake Hoare to show me around the valley.
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  • Bonney Riegel seperating the east and west lobes of Lake Bonney,  Taylor Valley, Antarctica
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  • Trekking on Lake Bonney toward the Taylor Glacier. This is the glacier which Scott descended to discover this ice free Dry Valley in 1903.
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  • Taylor Dry Valley. the 5,200 ft. Matterhorn on right
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  • Lake Bonney and upper Taylor Dry Valley from Nussbaum Riegel
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  • Taylor Glacier Blood Falls.
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  • Taylor Glacier and Rhone Glacier on right
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  • Taylor Glacier
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  • View up the Taylor Glacier
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  • After five nights in the Taylor Dry Valley it time for the flight back to McMurdo via Marble Point.
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  • Yours truely in front of the Sollas Glacier. Taylor Glacier in distance.
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  • Kukri Hills, Lake Bonney and Taylor glacier from Nussbaum Riegel
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  • The original objectives of the McMurdo LTER were to understand the influence of physical and biological constraints on the structure and function of dry valley ecosystems and to understand the modifying effects of material transport on these ecosystems. Now in the third funding cycle, they are poised to answer more complex questions about biodiversity, the impact of climatic legacies, and ecosystem structure and function.
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  • The LTER project is a study of the aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems in the Dry Valleys region of Antarctica. The Dry Valleys represent a region where life approaches its environmental limits, and unlike most other ecosystems, are dominated by microorganisms, mosses, lichens, and relatively few groups of invertebrates; higher forms of life are virtually non-existent.
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  • Sand blown down Taylor Valley ends up on the sea ice. The snow figures on Mt. Coleman are know locally as "two peeing men". A comforting landmark I can see from Observation Hill 50 miles away at McMurdo Station.
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  • Looking up Taylor Valley at the Canada Glacier
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  • Approaching Explorers Cove where Taylor Valley meets McMurdo Sound.
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  • View up Taylor Valley, Commonwealth Glacier can be seen on upper right
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  • Lake Hoare Station
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  • Rust colored Blood Falls
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  • Looking west up Lake Bonney at the Bonney Riegel and The Narrows that separates the east and west lobes of the lake. Rhone Glacier in distance.
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  • Lake Bonney kitchen
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  • Looking west across Lake Hoare toward the Seuss Glacier
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  • Thomas, wearing the birthday wig, and having a moment with his cake.
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  • Renee trekking along side the Canada Glacier
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  • Lateral moraine of the Canada Glacier
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  • Unique rock formations are found all over the landscape here, wind shaped ventifacts are everywhere, and these layered sedimentary rocks. Because there is no rain, and few people to interfere, geologic time and action rules the landscape.
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  • Ventifact
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  • Sollas Glacier
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  • Seuss Glacier during the decent from the Nussbaum Riegel
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  • The Defile, which is this narrow passage between the terminus of the Suess Glacier on left and the slopes of the Nussbaum Riegel on right, with Lake Hoare and the Canada Glacier ahead. A nice arrival after trekking all day.
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  • Scientists working at Lake Bonney
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  • Work and food prep at Lake Bonney Jamesway
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  • Lake Bonney Jamesway
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  • Canada Glacier from the air
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  • Overlooking the Canada Glacier
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  • Renee leading up the lateral moraine toward the top of the glacier.
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  • Lake Hoare and Canada Glacier
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  • We hiked from Lake Hoare around the terminus of the Canada Glacier to Lake Fryxell to visit the science camp. The camp was unoccupied at the time but soon would be with LTER scientists and researchers. The smaller buildings are individual labs used by researchers. The NSF seems to have gone this way on several of the stations I visited, a modular approach to field camp labs.
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  • Lake Hoare Station
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  • Renee trekking along the slope of Bonney Riegel at the Narrows that seperates the east and west lobes of Lake Bonney
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  • Lake Bonney, dots are the Polar Haven tents and equipment used by LTER scientists. Below these along the shore you can see the Lake Bonney camp. This was my 3rd day at Lake Bonney when I trekked over the Nussbaum Riegel to Lake Hoare for a three night say.
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  • Seuss Glacier from the decent of the Nussbaum Riegel
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  • Seuss Glacier from the decent of the Nussbaum Riegel
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  • Canada Glacier from Lake Fryxell
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  • Looking east from Lake Fryxell camp toward the Commonwealth Glacier. New Harbor and McMurdo Sound is beyond Coral Ridge in the distance.
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  • Lake Bonney Camp
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  • Lake Bonney Jamesway
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  • A harvest of "glacier berries", pieces of the Canada Glacier that have calved off, used in camp for drinking water.
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  • Canada Glacier
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  • Upper section of the Canada Glacier
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  • Lake Hoare camp from Lake Hoare.
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  • Science lab buildings at Lake Hoare
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  • Melt water at base of Canada Glacier
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  • Lake Hoare Station
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  • Lake Bonney Jamesway
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  • A tent with a view.
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  • Split ventifact. Ventifacts are rocks shaped by wind blown sand. Because there is no erosion from rain and little from melting snow, the landscape takes on an unusual appearance we are not used to seeing, something closer to a Mars or Lunar landscape.
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  • Ventifacts
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  • Ice on Lake Bonney
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  • Black patch which I believe is the remains of a basalt cinder cone, which has eroded and flowed down the slope forming a delta of round black rocks. Fascinating and unique formation to see and walk over. Sollas Glacier in distance.
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  • Wind eroded landscape
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  • Sollas Glacier
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  • Eroded basalt cinder cone
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  • I'm interested in knowing what this geological feature is. Looks to be a volcanic dike.
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  • Climbing Nussbaum Riegel
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  • Terminus of the Suess Glacier and Lake Hoare
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  • Home sweet home for three nights at Lake Hoare, Canada Glacier in background
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  • East side of Canada Glacier at Lake Fryxell
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  • Lake Fryxell Jamesway Hut
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  • Lake Fryxell Jamesway Hut
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  • Leopard Seal carcass near Lake Fryxell station
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  • Canada Glacier from Lake Fryxell
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  • ...bocce on Lake Hoare
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  • After dinner hike toward the Hughes Glacier
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  • Lake Bonney Camp
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  • Scientist working on the LTER (Long Term Ecological Research) project on Lake Bonney preparing a robot that samples the lake water column throughout the year.
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  • Back at Lake Bonney Jamesway
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  • Trekking across the surface of the Canada Glacier. Lake Fryxell, Kukri Hills and the tip of the Commonwealth Glacier in the distance.
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  • Lake Bonney Landscape. The mountain on far side of the lake is 5740 ft tall, and the lake itself is at 190 ft.
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  • Ventifact
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  • Sollas Glacier
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  • Canada Glacier terminus on hike to Lake Fryxell.
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  • After cake we hit the beach for some frisbee throwing and..
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  • Yours truely (Shaun O'Boyle) in front of a very large ventifact
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  • Hughes Glacier
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  • Ventifact
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  • Looking west from Coral Ridge up the Taylor Dry Valley. The Commonwealth Glacier in the foreground and Canada Glacier further up the valley. Part of Lake Fryxell can be seen, and the Nussbaum Riegel rises on the left.
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  • Polarhaven dive hut and Explorers Cove sea ice, the old ice is in rough condition from years of melt and refreezing, buckling and movement. Dark sand blown from Taylor Dry Valley causes localized melting.
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  • Before going to Antarctica I assumed that the rocks and surface would be monotone and without much variation. Wrongo. Huge variety in the types of rock laying on the ground in the Dry Valleys, many fractured from the extreme temperature variations.
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  • Commomwealth Glacier, we estimated this face to be about 80 feet high.
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  • Herbertson Glacier
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  • The telephone booth, actually an old dynamite shack used when dive holes were blasted through the sea ice at New Harbor. Now all holes are melted with a heater and kept open with chain saws and a lot of back work.
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  • Snow mobiling across New Harbor at the Ferrar Glacier
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  • Herbertson Glacier
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  • Herbertson Glacier detail
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  • Polarhaven dive hut on sea ice of Explorers Cove
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