Reflections in the Ice (and photos!)
Ben looking back on his first three months in Antarctica. Many photos are shown.
Ben looking back on his first three months in Antarctica. Many photos are shown.
Icefin’s field season has ended prematurely due to a week of bad weather that prevented us from flying to the RIS in time to access the borehole. Such is the […]
It’s heartbreak central for the Icefin team. After having a phenomenal season out on the sea ice, we had all of our gear packed and ready to go out to […]
For me, the past few dives have been dreams come true–when I first thought up building Icefin, what we are doing now is what I hoped to be able to […]
Science! It’s the primary reason we’re down here with Icefin. It’s one of the reasons McMurdo as a town exists. And it’s the reason why Antarctica is still (relatively) free […]
(Note: This is a little behind! It was a busy engineering week, in a good way!) Deployment day! We’ve been looking forward to this day with trepidation and excitement for […]
This past Saturday a New Zealand news team from NewsHub on Channel 3 came out to our sea ice site for Icefin’s third dive of the season, and their story […]
Antarctica has a reputation, deservedly so, of being a place of extremes – extreme winds, extreme cold, extreme aridity – but McMurdo has been reasonably free of such brutality. The […]
Unlike the Arctic, which is mostly water surrounded by land, Antarctica is land surrounded by water. 50 million years ago, it was filled with green and life, but then over […]
After a six-day work week, everyone eagerly looks forward to a day off and Sunday Brunch as the weekend rolls around- I suspect most are equally excited about Crary Lab […]