Cape Shireff, Wauvermann's & WAIS Divide

Bottom trawl fishing for deep sea corals.  Muddy.  We caught all our samples in just one net tow!

Wauvermann CODAR site that we delivered parts and people to by small boats.

Blue Petrel.

Gentoo Penguins.

Night shift on LMG 1509.

Jennie, Matt & I preparing our small boats for the day.  We did a lot of Zodiac trips on this cruise.

Mount Williams on Anvers Island (near Palmer Station).

Blue eyed cormorant.

That's me driving the Zodiac, headed over to Wauvermann island.

Shipping vessel in the Straits of Magellan.

Gentoo penguins at Cape Shireff.

Sunset on Mt. Williams, the tallest mountain on Anvers Island.

Gentoo penguins.

The LMG as seen from the small boats.

Gentoo.

These guys were out everyday.

An elaborate iceberg.

Singing while driving.

Mid-water trawl fishing for krill with Jennie.

This mid-Oct to mid-November cruise was a lot more fun than usual because we did a lot of operations in the small boats, putting in Cape Shireff field camp and servicing a remote CODAR site, both on islands that were inaccessible by larger ship.  I was lucky to have some really cool gals to work with.  Had a couple weeks off with Dave in Idaho working on our condo and having some amazing meals, including our first dinner at Steamer's (steak and trout!).  Then I left December 4th to go through McMurdo out to WAIS Divide Deep Field Camp to fuel the aircraft, generators and stoves for two months.

The Sundogs (rainbows in arcs around the sun) at WAIS are frequent and always this stunning!

 The DC3 (Basler) from ALE Camp stopped by to take all our scientists out of camp at the end.

 Our beautiful Twin Otter KBH (photographed at a different field camp).  This is the plane that I spent most of my time fueling for the different science missions that they flew for Polenet.

WAIS camp from the air.  You can see our tents in the top center (yellow dots) and my two fuel bladders in the bottom right, as well as me dragging the fuel hose back into place.

 McMurdo Station from the top of Observation Hill; the NSF logo on the new fuel tank.

 Cross on the top of Observation Hill is to Robert Falcon Scott's men.

 More sun dogs at WAIS and on the right the galley tent.

For girl time, I took my friend Katie a few miles from camp to a spot where you see nothing but flat white in every direction via snowmobile.  Gorgeous and peaceful.  

 My home for two months; an Arctic Oven tent.  That you get to dig out of snow drifts.

I had fun making the inside of my tent look more home like.  Pretty great for -30F.

 Camp close was just the 8 of us, and by DC3 with a surprise visit from my friend Emily.

Back at McMurdo the supply ship and tanker had already been through.

My birthday was so fun!  Coffee with the ladies at the BFC, a bloody mary with WAIS friends and then hours of boating with my Marine Tech friends and these gals from WAIS.  Beautiful sunny day with no wind and lots of seals.

Quite a windy season out at WAIS, with wind that blew in snow everyday, causing nonstop shoveling.  Met some great folks and happy to have seen my friends at McMurdo along the way.  Glad to be back with Dave, who will meet me here in Florida in just days. :)