03 11 10: EPILOGUE
I have just arrived home after thirty plus hours of traveling. I return with mixed emotions (as many of my…
03 07 10: “The Big Goodbye”
We are less than 24 hours from Hobart and the end of this most amazing expedition. So, while the Wilkes…
03 07 10: "The Big Goodbye"
As the sun sets on the last part of this Expedition yet another magical sunrise
It was a frosty morning during this time of an ever weakening light from the Antarctic sun. The spirits of…
Blog Entry 02 16 10: The Two Sides of Antarctica
For the last few days, we have been at the whims of the spirits of Antarctica. We first had to…
Twins views of heaven
It is not often that one can gaze into the golden rays of heaven. But on two successive morns, The…
A TREE RING RECORD FROM THE DEEP SEA OFF OF ANTARCTICA
02 08 10 A tree ring record from the deep sea We have left a most extraordinary drilling…
GAZING OUT ONTO A MOST HOLY SITE
During our two days at the Adellie Site, the spirits of Antarctica granted us the glory of seeing the magnificence…
Getting Deep in the Greenhouse World
Blog entry 02 03 10: Getting Deep in the Greenhouse World We drilled over a thousand meters (3,300 feet +) of…
Onward to the Second Site and Finding Forams
The first forams!!? Once all of the commotion died down, the paleontologists went off with their samples, washing the sediments…