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The second half of November was a sunny, while not necessarily ice-free, contrast to the first. During the early part of November Low-pressure system after low-pressure system seemed to endlessly buffet our spit […]

I’ve started and stopped this blog post a number of times now. It’s been a really difficult one to write. Antarctica is an amazing place, the beautiful mountains, vibrant life and the raw power of the weather and nature here are truly humbling. On a daily basis I see things I never imagined I’d witness. The [...]

The RUcold team has been spending the last week or so getting settled in here at Palmer Station. We’ve weathered plenty of storms, said goodbye to some friends on the R/V Laurence M. Gould (LMG) , who brought us down here and started making some new ones on station. Just about everything here seems to be [...]

Things are heating up down in the southern hemisphere and the Rutgers Long Term Ecosystem Research (LTER) group is migrating south to start another Antarctic summer sampling season. Garz and Kaycee are returning this year and I’m the newbie of the group. My main focus down here will be deploying, servicing and recovering underwater robots or [...]