18 November 2017

words. pictures.

Two batches of photos.

First batch - 10/23/17:  
Last sunset wherein the sun dips below the Royal Society Range. It was pretty damn cold. Fingered gloves do not insulate as well as mittens. Mittens do not lend well to operating buttons on cameras. Trade offs. 

Second batch - 11/6/17.
Lake Hoare, Taylor Dry Valley. This valley is embedded within the greater McMurdo Dry Valleys.
I got to ride in a helicopter. Glaciers are neat. The Dry Valleys are more neat.
I was on the Canada Glacier.
This trip marks one of my coolest adventures to date.

Other things: 
-I was able to join the auxiliary SAR team. This makes me happy.
-The vinyl collection on station is remarkable and I look forward to spending more Sundays digging through records and drinking coffee.
-The radio station acquires three new CDs per week. There is a digital music library, and it's even kind of functional. I do not understand why they do not have a process of ingesting CDs. It makes me itchy thinking about it. Like a lot.
I am tentatively putting together an all-vinyl show in my head. That would be fun.

End.

















14 October 2017

balloon launch

Cool dude photographer Stephen Allinger is behind the lens in capturing a super neat opportunity to launch a weather balloon.
Weather people will have to confirm this, but I believe this is the impetus behind the launches: https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/data-access/weather-balloon/integrated-global-radiosonde-archive

It was a beautiful day to fill a giant balloon with helium and release it into the atmosphere.

Numbers:
The balloon is 600 grams.
My launch reached a termination pressure of 9.6 hectopascals.





Seattle Crew - I miss you!






That was so cool!

Still cool!

pressure ridge hike

Pressure ridges are super neat to see up close.









04 October 2017

weather

Sometimes we get weather down here.




Not visible: so many more layers underneath.


20 September 2017

eyeball



Cool dude photographer, Stephen Allinger, has a couple cool photo projects happening down here.
Here's my eyeball.