Our 2nd wave of the Weddell seal population study field team finally made it to the coldest, windiest, driest continent on Earth–Antarctica! In the photo below are Aubrey Power, Alissa Anderson, and Jesse DeVoe just after deplaning from the Air Force C-17.
The giant transport jet landed on the sea ice shelf outside McMurdo Station, and the team was driven to McMurdo on the famous "Ivan the Terra Bus".
Here's a video from a previous season showing the C-17 boarding process in Christchurch, New Zealand, a trip up to the cool C-17 cockpit, the subsequent deplaning on the Sea Ice Shelf, and the drive to McMurdo Station on Ivan the Terra Bus…
The team is now finishing up training at McMurdo, and will head out to the remote sea ice camp at Big Razorback Island to join the 1st wave of the field team, Kaitlin Macdonald, Shane Petch, and Thomas Sutton, that helped get the remote sea ice camp in order after the camp pull. Here's a video of the camp pull from a previous season with imaging by Jessica Farrer…
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