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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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  • Scallop shells that have precipitated up through the sea ice are found by the thousands along the shore of New Harbor in this area.
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  • New Harbor camp Jamesway Huts adapted from Korean war Jamesways, now serving as camp shelter. The camp has been at this location since 1987.
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  • New Harbor camp Jamesway living quarters. Cozy home for 6.
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  • I spent three nights at the New Harbor camp, courtesy a generous invite from Sam Bowser, principle investigator of project B-043-M. A description of Sam's project from the NSF website: This project investigates the evolution, genome structure, and associated biomes of foraminiferan protists (forams)... Researchers will dive under the sea ice at Explorers Cove, Cape Bernacchi, and McMurdo Station to collect forams and sediment cores.
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  • 13,200 ft. Mount Lister in distance from New Harbor
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  • Dessicated Weddell Seal carcass above New Harbor camp. Some of these carcasses have been carbon dated at several thousand years old.
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  • New Harbor Camp
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  • New Harbor Camp from Explorers Cove
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  • New Harbor from the Bowers Piedmont Glacier, Kukri Hills in distance on right.
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  • Breakfast reading at New Harbor
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  • Sam Bowser getting the best angle on a boulder that rolled down Mt. Barnes onto the sea ice. Herbertson Glacier can be seen 5 miles away across New Harbor.
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  • New Harbor and Ferrar Glacier
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  • Flight to New Harbor over a windswept McMurdo Sound
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  • Iceberg and Weddell Seal tracks near Cape Bernacchi dive site
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  • Iceberg on route to Cape Bernacchi dive site
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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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  • 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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  • Herbertson Glacier
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  • Herbertson Glacier detail
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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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  • Toward the Ferrar Glacier
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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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  • Looking back at Explorers Cove from Coral Ridge on the walk to the Commonwealth Glacier, Cape Bernacchi in distance on left.
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  • The moat allowed us to ride snow mobiles all the way from Explorers Cove and get fairly close to the Ferrar Glacier.
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  • Bowers Piedmont Glacier
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  • Dive site with Mount Erebus Volcano in background. Notice the extremly rough condition of the years old sea ice
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  • Mike Koonce surfacing from a dive with Paul Cziko dive tending at the heart shaped dive hole. I could clearly hear the Weddell Seal's eerie whistling call through the ice at this dive site. According to the divers, the physical discomfort of diving in water that is at freezing temperatures is balanced by the beauty of the under ice environment.
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  • Polarhaven dive hut on sea ice of Explorers Cove
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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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  • Ice terrain along the sea edge.
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  • That's my cot in the aisle, kind of in everyone's way, but I'll take it over tenting outside (which I did plenty of later in the trip).
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  • Lunch time
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  • Looking up Taylor Valley at the Canada Glacier
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  • Commonwealth Glacier
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  • Early morning at camp.
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  • The Moat, the area between ice pressure ridges and the shoreline. Like a paved road in places, others not so much.
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  • Pressure ridges and Ferrar Glacier in distance. During the Discovery Expedition in 1903 this is the glacier Captain Scott, Evans and Lashley journeyed up to the Polar Plateau during the western journey.
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  • An extremely rare find at these latitudes, a bed of moss growing near the shore of the Sound
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  • Commonwealth Glacier face
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  • Explorers Cove with Erebus Volcano
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  • Approaching Explorers Cove where Taylor Valley meets McMurdo Sound.
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  • Divers preparing to dive in Explorers Cove with strong Fata Morgana mirage (the long horizontal band just above horizon) in background
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  • Henry Kaiser, Mike Koonce and Paul Cziko clearing a dive hole in preparation for a dive
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  • Laura Von Rosk examining and sorting foraminifera in the camp lab
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  • Jars for sorting Forams
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  • Yours truly (Shaun O'Boyle) on the sea ice on route toward the Ferrar Glacier. Yes, we drove over that surface on snow mobiles, somehow weaving a path through.
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  • Looking up a boulder strewn 3000 ft high slope of the Kukri Hills
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  • Weddell Seal bone structure of the flipper.
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  • Commonwealth Glacier face
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  • Looking North over Cape Bernacchi on flight back to McMurdo. The icebergs we visited can be seen below center.
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  • Group reviewing video with VIP guests after a big dive.
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  • View up Taylor Valley, Commonwealth Glacier can be seen on upper right
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  • Henry Kaiser, Sam Bowser, Laura Von Rosk and Amanda Andreas viewing dive video from the morning dive.
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  • Foraminifera being sorted under the microscope
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  • Amanda and Laura displaying their ice dancing skills
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  • Iceberg on route to Cape Bernacchi dive site
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  • The moat allowed us to ride snow mobiles all the way from Explorers Cove and get fairly close to the Ferrar Glacier. Erebus in the distance across McMurdo Sound.
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  • Tabular Iceberg
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  • Tabular Iceberg
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  • Royal Society Range and Bowers Piedmont Glacier
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  • 100 ft (30M) high side of Tabular Iceberg
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  • A 10 pm stroll that turned into a  hike. As always in the clear air and barren landscapes of Antarctica, things are much further away than they look. This hill I climbed looked like a short 10 minute walk, and turned into an hour long climb.
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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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  • New Harbor Station Jamesway structures, Explorers Cove, Antarctica
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