Its All North From Here

Its an abstract thing to stand at the bottom of the world.  In our daily lives, opportunities to see the curvature of the Earth are rare, so the thought of being at the very bottom of the globe can seem unrealistic… like a dream.  So the opportunity to stand there, feet on the ice at...

The Dark Arrives… And Never Leaves

I saw my first stars in Antarctica several weeks ago.  It was 2am, and while we had increasingly dark nights leading up to that evening, this one was particularly cloudless.  I had to stop on my way back from Gallaghers to just take it in.  After two summer research seasons down here, where the closest thing you...

Flat White Feels Right – 7 Weeks in the Antarctic Deep Field

“Oh, Shit” The words came out involuntarily from both of our mouths as we looked from the bed to the flight scroll on the TV.  After hitting the snooze button on our alarms, a habit created by a week of flight delays, neither of us had expected to see WSD-001 WAIS Divide listed with a...