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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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  • Grounded Iceberg, McMurdo Sound, Antarctica. To give a sense of scale, the vertical sides of this iceberg are 100 ft (30 M) high (I know because I landed on it in a helicopter).
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  • Bonney Riegel seperating the east and west lobes of Lake Bonney,  Taylor Valley, Antarctica
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  • Cape Crozier, Ross Island, Antarctica
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  • Shackleton's Hut, Cape Royds, Antarctica
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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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  • Well signed bunkhouse at Black Island. If you watch the film "Antarctica: A Year on the Ice" you will see this bunk house when the film maker, Anthony Powell, visits Black Island in the winter, and the entire inside of this bunk house is filled with snow and ice.
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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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  • 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 detail
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  • Bowers Piedmont Glacier
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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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  • 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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  • Iceberg and Weddell Seal tracks near Cape Bernacchi dive site
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  • Breakfast reading at New Harbor
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  • Toward the Ferrar Glacier
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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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  • Herbertson 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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  • Ice terrain along the sea edge.
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  • Iceberg on route to Cape Bernacchi dive site
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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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  • Jars for sorting Forams
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • An extremely rare find at these latitudes, a bed of moss growing near the shore of the Sound
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  • Looking up a boulder strewn 3000 ft high slope of the Kukri Hills
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  • Commonwealth Glacier face
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  • Group reviewing video with VIP guests after a big dive.
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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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  • 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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  • Henry Kaiser, Mike Koonce and Paul Cziko clearing a dive hole in preparation for a dive
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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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  • Laura Von Rosk examining and sorting foraminifera in the camp lab
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  • Foraminifera being sorted under the microscope
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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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  • 13,200 ft. Mount Lister in distance from New Harbor
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  • Weddell Seal bone structure of the flipper.
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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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  • Commonwealth Glacier face
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  • Explorers Cove with Erebus Volcano
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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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  • 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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  • New Harbor Camp
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  • New Harbor Camp from Explorers Cove
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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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  • Amanda and Laura displaying their ice dancing skills
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  • View up the Taylor Glacier
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  • Lake Bonney kitchen
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  • McMurdo's unique facial hair inventory control
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  • McMurdo's unique facial hair inventory control
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  • Heroic era refuse pile
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  • Adelie penguin tracks in sand
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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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  • 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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  • The station handles all McMurdo communications with the outside world via satellite, so some very complex telecommunications and electrical equipment on hand. It was rumored that the station was going to be replaced within a few years with equipment located on Ross Island.
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  • Lunch!
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  • The refrigerator aisle
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  • Shelf above Henry Bowers bunk, and what looks like the hat he wore in several photos I've seen.
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  • Elaine Hood, my escort to Cape Evans on the third visit.
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  • Looking across 20 miles of the Ross Ice Shelf at Ross Island, the summit of Mount Erebus volcano is 45 miles away. The dark area below Erebus is the Hut Point Peninsula where McMurdo Station is located at the end of the peninsula. Observation Hill can be made out on the right side of the peninsula, Arrival Heights on the left side, and Castle Rock is above and behind McMurdo. On the ice shelf below Hut Point you can see Pegasus Airfield, and several active science project locations.
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  • Karyn Martin, the station cook and Scott Gilbert, a utility mechanic, working in the Black Island station kitchen
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  • McMurdo Sound ice breakup
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  • Seuss Glacier from the decent of the Nussbaum Riegel
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  • Sea Ice Pressure at Hut Point
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  • Terra Nova Hut during my third visit out to Cape Evans. A cake walk compared to the first vist, with a nice calm day and temps in the 20's.
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  • Approaching Castle Rock with Mount Erebus beyond.
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  • Scientists working at Lake Bonney
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  • Lake Bonney Jamesway
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  • McMurdo's unique facial hair inventory control
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  • Shackleton's coal burning stove
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  • Darkroom, Shackleton's Cape Royds hut
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  • Pony tack in what was Mawson's Laboratory, Shackleton's Hut, Cape Royds
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  • Moon like landscape of Cape Royds kenyte
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  • Polar Haven galley and social area.
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  • Overlooking the Canada Glacier
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  • Canada Glacier
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  • Renee leading up the lateral moraine toward the top of the 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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  • 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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