tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-71068697229013821322024-03-19T05:07:11.541+00:00Ramblings to and from AntarcticaBehind the scenes of Antarctic ScienceMikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05335367037419395331noreply@blogger.comBlogger98125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7106869722901382132.post-70833888251503950182019-04-03T20:52:00.001+01:002019-04-03T20:52:08.059+01:00MaitriAlthough I am now back in the UK (and have been for some time) I still have a couple of posts to round off the trip. My route out of Halley was a Basler to Novolazarevskaya (a Russian operated Blue Ice airstrip) usually referred to as Novo (much the same as my route in Jan 2013). The Indian station of Maitri is just a few km away on an area of moraine known as Oasis.<br />
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Three of us had a few hours at Maitri (and a really super meal) to install an experiment (a VLF experiment similar to one that we are operating at Halley). </div>
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Maitri is at a very unusual location, despite being on a rocky island surrounded by ice, it is right next to some fresh water lakes that are ice free in summer.</div>
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Here is the team that deployed the experiment.</div>
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Mikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05335367037419395331noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7106869722901382132.post-54154927600851273662019-02-05T18:57:00.002+00:002019-02-05T18:57:42.739+00:00A liitle bit of Halley historyThis is either end of the history wall here at Halley. It has a photograph of all the wintering teams from 1956 until 2016 (when we stopped because of glaciological risk).<br />
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I am somewhere in the middle in winters 1989 and 1990.<br />
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When I arrived in Dec 1988, I brought my much loved Muddy Fox Explorer, almost certainly the first mountain bike at Halley - although the narrow tyres limited its use to really good surfaces.<br />
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Halley now has three FAT bikes, they work well in all but the softest of snow surfaces (when skis still have the edge). They are used for general recreation or for transport around the site. They are particularly good for going to CASLAB which is our clean chemistry lab 2km from the station where we limit access by combustion engined vehicles to the absolute minimum.<br />
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Here's me just playing around on one.<br />
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<br />Mikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05335367037419395331noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7106869722901382132.post-60643063028881855632019-02-04T00:30:00.003+00:002019-02-04T00:30:34.389+00:00Automating HalleyI am at Halley to oversee the automation project. Due to the uncertain state of<b> </b>the glaciological state of the Brunt Iceshelf, BAS has decided that it is not prudent to winter staff at Halley at the moment. Science continues at and from Halley during the summer months, but in winter only low powered field instruments were able to collect data. We have been working hard to make Halley scientifically productive during the 9 month winter despite having no staff on site, or any chance of maintenance visits. The key to this is providing reliable mains power at around the 15kW level for the complete 9 months. The route we have decided upon is a micro-jet turbine from a company called Capstone. This has only 1 moving part, the alternator and turbine are on one shaft on air bearings. It has no lubricants or liquid for cooling, and can go for 8000hrs between services - that's more than 9 months. The difficult thing for us is making sure that it maintains it's operating temperature and minimum load, and most importantly that the fuel can get to it without any chance of spillage. Here is the automation platform.<br />
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The turbine container is the green one in the middle, the red one is what we call the distribution container which allows us to change all the power connections from the normal station to the turbine. The white container contains a science experiment, although most of the science experiments powered by the turbine are in their normal locations around the station. Here is the automation platform from the fuel containers.<br />
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The two 23000L aviation diesel (Avtur) fuel containers are connected by anti-siphon valves and the levels are monitored so that we know that the amount of fuel that leaves the bulk tanks is the same as finds its way to the day tank.<br />
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There are many, many safety measures, and hundreds of parameters that we measure and transmit to Cambridge. Here is the turbine itself.<br />
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Here it is in a heat photograph.<br />
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Most of the experiments are based around electronic systems and we can control them over the network with very little modification, although some need much more. The white container contains something called a Dobson that measures the ozone above Halley (you may know that Halley found the ozone hole), this requires an operator to twist dials and pull levers and the like. Using servos we have replaced the operator with a computer.<br />
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<br />Mikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05335367037419395331noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7106869722901382132.post-39554633405971770352019-01-31T01:02:00.002+00:002019-01-31T01:02:48.238+00:00Back at HalleyBack at Halley, but not quite the same as the one I left 5 years ago. The glaciology of the Brunt iceshelf forced us to move the station to the safe side of an emerging crack. So the whole station was moved 23km from its last site to a new one known as Z6a. Unfortunately the glaciological situation was sufficiently complicated that we decided that it wasn't prudent to leave people here in the winter when getting them out would be near impossible. See https://www.bas.ac.uk/media-post/115024/ - much of the reason I am here is to oversee our response to not having staff here in winter but still wanting to keep the scientific productivity of the station, more on that later. The modules are powered and we are working and having some rec in them, although we haven't commissioned the wet services or the fire suppression so we are eating and sleeping in other (less salubrious) buildings.<br />
Here are the modules - still looking amazing:<br />
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We however are based in and around the summer overflow accommodation building known as the Drewry.</div>
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Where we eating, washing etc, and some people are sleeping. Here's the dinning area.</div>
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I am actually sleeping outside in what is known as an emergency caboose, and although it means I have to walk from building to building if I want a wee or to wash my teetch etc, the emergency cabooses are very cosy and above all quiet. Here are two views on my temporary home.<br />
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Inside there are four sleeping 'coffins', I am bottom left.<br />
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Inside my 'coffin' is really neat and cosy.<br />
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Inside the modules, things are pretty much as they were when I was last here. The bar has new sofas.<br />
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The bar is empty because we don't have any alcohol or soft drinks this season. The cracks in the Brunt iceshelf mean we can't get a ship in, so everything we are using is already here or we have brought in by plane (which is eye wateringly expensive, so is limited to absolute essentials). Another change since I was last here is the addition of a dart board.<br />
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<br />Mikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05335367037419395331noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7106869722901382132.post-3763872756680953752019-01-29T00:36:00.001+00:002019-01-29T00:36:13.143+00:00Flight, Sky-Blu to HalleyIt's about 1450km from Sky Blu to Halley, just over 5hrs 30mins flying time in a Twin Otter. Initially over mountains that were soon left behind.<br />
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Here is Vicki our pilot. She was one of the first ladies to winter at Halley in 1997 (as a meteorologist), several years later she returned to BAS as its first woman pilot.<br />
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And here's me at the controls to give here a quick break.<br />
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The flight is long enough to require a stop at a fuel depot at around halfway. This is just a load of drums that have been left there for the purpose. If you are lucky there isn't too much digging to get at them.<br />
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Rather surprisingly while we were there a BASLER from ALE dropped in just a few 100m away to set up their own fuel depot. It is hard to describe just how big and empty Antarctica is, and how surprising it is to share a small part of in in space and time with another.<br />
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After leaving the depot, the scenery was almost all ice.<br />
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Apart from a very small amount of rock, on which sits the Argentine station, Belgrano,surrounded bu ice falls and crevasses.<br />
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Then more ice scenery for the next couple of hours.<br />
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Eventually the Brunt Iceshelf came into view, and we passed over the 1st chasm crack that has given us so many problems lately - but more on that later.<br />
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<br />Mikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05335367037419395331noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7106869722901382132.post-73189982037960244912019-01-27T14:23:00.001+00:002019-01-27T14:23:41.141+00:00At Sky-BluSo what was I doing at Sky-Blu? It was part of the UK Antarctic Meteorites project - see https://ukantarcticmeteorites.com/ for all the details, but aims to find buried, hidden iron meteorites in those blue ice areas that naturally concentrate meteorites. So while Katie and Julie are a few hundred miles south of Halley checking out likely blue ice areas (and finding lots of meteorites - 34 so far this season), Geoff and I are testing the giant metal detector that we will use to find the buried iron ones.<br />
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And here I am giving it its inaugural tow:<br />
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It has to be relatively robust as it needs to be towed for many hundreds of km over hard ice, there are some minor improvements to make but it basically works.<br />
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The key bit of testing was collecting data from the electronics for how it reacts to test samples that we had buried at various depths. This will allow the digital processing to be tuned back in Manchester so that we have optimal signal to noise.<br />
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Here it is all wired up.<br />
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The solar panels keep the batteries full so it is always ready to tow, although they do give some stability issues so we may put them at the campsite and swap a charged battery in/out each time it is used. <br />
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<br />Mikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05335367037419395331noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7106869722901382132.post-6721980889086081932019-01-25T00:47:00.001+00:002019-01-25T00:47:14.360+00:00Sky BluSky Blu is an area of blue ice right at the bottom of the peninsula. As its hard blue ice we can land planes using wheel which means we can get out DASH-7 there with its much higher payload than a Twin Otter. Sky-Blu is ideally placed to service to serve BAS's deep field program. Although, when we were there the ice didn't look very blue as it was covered with frost, still hard and slippy mind.<br />
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The infrastructure of Sky Blu consists of a few tents, huts, and underground garages.<br />
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Blue ice areas are always windy and hence feel cold, so having a warm welcoming tent to retreat into is almost essential. The reflex stoves keep the tent warm, solar panels provide power, with occasional use of a generator for high power items like the breadmaker! <br />
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And here is the camp manager, Tom, on domestics duties.<br />
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<br />Mikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05335367037419395331noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7106869722901382132.post-45776441388254340742019-01-22T00:44:00.000+00:002019-01-22T00:44:02.199+00:00Flight to Sky-BluThere has been quite a lot happen since my last post and I am now at Halley, but on the way to from Rothera I have not had any access to the internet, so this is the first of my catch up posts.<br />
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The flight to Sky-Blu started with reasonable views<br />
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Mikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05335367037419395331noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7106869722901382132.post-63259432010058963462019-01-14T13:14:00.001+00:002019-01-14T13:14:15.737+00:00Hurry up and waitThe plan was to fly to Sky Blu today, it takes about 4 hours by Twin Otter aircraft. A little less than 1.5 hours to Fossil Bluff where we refuel, and then a little more than 1.5 hours onwards to Sky Blu, plus of course the time needed to refuel.<br />
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Unfortunately, the weather is snowy at Rothera, Fossil Bluff and Sky Blu today so having rushed around to get all our equipment packed and after an early start to have breakfast and make the days sandwiches, we are now waiting until tomorrow.<br /><br />Mikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05335367037419395331noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7106869722901382132.post-87206168160088007972019-01-13T00:58:00.001+00:002019-01-13T11:41:44.013+00:00Preparation, preparation, preparation...Before heading into the field (as being away from station is known), there is a lot of preparation. All the safety and survival equipment obviously, but much of that is done for you. We have to prepare all our project equipment, unpack it hoe it was shipped, trial build and test it all. Here is Geoff and I putting the meteorite metal detector together - is this the largest metal detector in the world? Its 5M wide and we intend to drag it behind a skidoo at Sky Blu.<br />
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<br />Mikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05335367037419395331noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7106869722901382132.post-59484408006587638362019-01-12T01:31:00.000+00:002019-01-12T01:31:44.235+00:00Back in Antarctica - part 2En-forced relaxation in Punta was soon over and it was time to fly to Rothera station on BAS's inter-continental DASH7.<br />
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The flight was cloudy with nothing to see, but arrival made up for it. Rothera has wonderful scenery, and lots of wildlife, this year there are lots more elephant seals here than usual.<br />
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<br />Mikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05335367037419395331noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7106869722901382132.post-81564546295320440672019-01-12T01:12:00.000+00:002019-01-12T01:12:03.133+00:00Back In AntarcticaI am back in Antarctica, this time I have several things to do, but mainly checking the automation project at Halley (see: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-41819509) and working with Manchester University on the Iron Meteorites project (see: https://ukantarcticmeteorites.com/ ). This project is in two parts, Katie is scoping out likely meteor stranding zones (and the good news is that she has already found meteors) whilst Geoff and I and testing the equipment to find buried Iron metorites, this testing will take place at a blue ice area that is known as Sky Blu.<br />
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We were pretty busy so we didn’t get much time off although
I did manage a quick run around the station, worrying about a bear popping out
at any moment, there is an almost exact 1km loop.</div>
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Here I am after 5km in the cold. </div>
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Cycling is a pretty popular form of transport at Ny-Alesund, although it has to be said that the British bikes could do with a service.<br />
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In about 18 months’ time there will be a season where we
search for the missing iron meteorites of Antarctica, before that we have one
season checking out that the areas we have selected are meteor stranding zones and
that are equipment works correctly. This trip was all about characterising the
metal detectors. We have designed a metal detector especially for the job, and
we needed somewhere radio quiet with deep clean ice to characterise it, this involves
driving it over various samples buried at various depths.</div>
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The detecting coil is on the large flat panel just over a meter wide. In the final setup we will be dragging 5 of these to scan a swath 5m wide. Even so we expect to have to drive about 200km on average for each buried iron meteorite we find, although we should hopefully find many more stoney ones on the surface.</div>
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The equipment didn't always work!</div>
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Mikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05335367037419395331noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7106869722901382132.post-67365324859263382032018-03-26T13:21:00.001+01:002018-03-26T21:00:08.930+01:00PenguinPenguins keep a pretty low profile in the Arctic, generally they don't like Polar Bears but just occaisionally:<br />
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Compareing beaks with the great man himself.<br />
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And driving the skidoo<br />
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<br />Mikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05335367037419395331noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7106869722901382132.post-49054640358168425562018-03-25T20:10:00.001+01:002018-03-25T20:10:29.114+01:00A little history.Ny-Alesund was originally founded as a mining town in 1917, but became famous as the departure point for heading to the North Pole. On the 11th of May 1926 the airship Norge left Ny-Alesund and became the first undisputed trip to reach the North Pole the following day. Roald Amundsen of South Pole fame led the expedition, with the airship designed and piloted by Umberto Nobile. The airship mast is still standing:<br />
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And this is where Amundsen stayed - in a villa named after him<br />
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There is of course a <span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 107%;">statue</span> of the man himself.<br />
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The last mining activity terminated in 1962 and the village <span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 107%;">gradually</span> morphed into a scientific research station which now has 10 different nationalities renting buildings off the Kings Bay Company (effectively the <span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Norwegian</span> government). Although the buildings all look similar, each nation does manage to put their own stamp on their place. Here is the Chinese building.<br />
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<br />Mikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05335367037419395331noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7106869722901382132.post-78889865105362674422018-03-24T16:36:00.001+00:002018-03-24T16:36:03.198+00:00On BroggerbreenHad a good day working on a glacier called Austre Broggerbreen. Nice weather, nice scenery.<br />
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<br />Mikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05335367037419395331noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7106869722901382132.post-90024453767312493942018-03-23T20:48:00.000+00:002018-03-23T20:48:03.434+00:00Not Polar Bears.There are two animals that we have seen quite a bit of. First is Kayla, a lovely malamute who lives just opposite our front door and yowls everytime we pass by.<br />
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There are Ivory gulls swooping across the bay but far too far away to get a good picture.<br />
<br />Mikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05335367037419395331noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7106869722901382132.post-2370998724383425932018-03-22T20:20:00.001+00:002018-03-23T10:56:40.226+00:00Weapons trainingOne major difference between the Arctic and the Antarctic is that of Polar Bears - the ultimate top predator. All researchers here are trained in the polar bear hazard and one or two people in the party are given extra training in weapons, a flare pistol to try and scare the bear away and if the worst should come to the worst, a rifle to shoot the bear. Here am I getting rifle familiarisation.<br />
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At the rifle range you get plenty of opportunity to practice. It't about 30m to the target, a distance a bear can cover in less than 3s. I am the one on the right, both Geoff and I managed to hit the target on all our shots - that's the black dot.<br />
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Most of the training is about safety, unless you are very methodical and careful then the guns could be a worse hazard than the bears! However, I passed and am now certificated.<br />
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Here's my skidoo in front of the NERC building here ay Ny-Alesund. Flare pistol on the front:<br />
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And rifle holder on the rear:<br />
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Generally, this exposure to guns and carrying round a rifle each day has just reinforced my view of guns, they are very violent, dangerous things which should not be allowed to fall into the wrong hands. Much as I would love to see a polar bear I very much hope that I don't have to even try and frighten one away let alone shoot it.<br />
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<br />Mikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05335367037419395331noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7106869722901382132.post-33337669315329175972018-03-21T21:25:00.000+00:002018-03-21T21:25:00.742+00:00Flight to Ny-AlesundFlight across to Ny-Alesund is a short 30min hop in a Dornier (228 I think).<br />
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There is lots of scenery for such a short flight.<br />
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Arrival at Terminal 1 Ny-Alesund<br />
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<br />Mikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05335367037419395331noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7106869722901382132.post-15921192791332875302018-03-20T14:56:00.001+00:002018-03-20T14:56:49.396+00:00Arrival in LongyearbyenA normal comfortable passenger plane ride from Oslo to Longyearbyen, although it's a cold walk down the steps here.<br />
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And in the arrivals hall if you were in any doubt about where you were...<br />
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Mikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05335367037419395331noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7106869722901382132.post-88012175596713089982018-03-15T22:20:00.000+00:002018-03-15T22:24:02.092+00:00Crank her up.Haven't posted here for a while but I am just about to go on another trip. This time, a short one to Ny Alesund in Svalbard. I am going with a team from Manchester University to test and characterise the equipment that we are planning to use to find Iron Meteorites in Antarctica.<br />
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We had some excellent views of the spectacular mountains on the journey, I'll post some later.<br />
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At just 4 weeks (and four continents) one of my shorter trips to Antarctica.<br />
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<br />Mikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05335367037419395331noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7106869722901382132.post-80490797237852938242013-02-20T20:47:00.000+00:002013-02-20T20:49:25.646+00:00Quick post before leaving.I should be leaving early for Novo tomorrow morning. I'll be out of internet for a few days, perhaps until I am back in the UK. here are a couple of random photos from around Halley VI.<br> <br> This is my shadow off the bridge late one evening. The bridge separates the two halves of the station, each of which have generators; so the bridge means that even if there was a serious fire we would still retain living space and a working set of generators.<br> <br> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOUOh7Tt-JDg8s5WRixenZ919B-UqarA_995XxCVsEDeozoTG39y-k7Ll7xYzU2MhDPsQmAucJxU6T4WjDtZi9KU20kZIDnWuTUYxA71qdbgC41SXPU1zGUOeG7pAiMkV9jde4lkTO2zkI/s1600/Shaddow_bridge-765647.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOUOh7Tt-JDg8s5WRixenZ919B-UqarA_995XxCVsEDeozoTG39y-k7Ll7xYzU2MhDPsQmAucJxU6T4WjDtZi9KU20kZIDnWuTUYxA71qdbgC41SXPU1zGUOeG7pAiMkV9jde4lkTO2zkI/s320/Shaddow_bridge-765647.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5847139987793090994" /></a><br> <br> The next picture is of the phone booth in the summer accommodation module - I like it!<br> <br> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCVBovVXEkBs2q6p9S3F7uoEmFdokXvH8aJqL-GlsbJOD9X6y2L1EzJyQxctf-dTvrMFbalp0Gl33EH3-5jLOE6B10akgitmxghlxJj0d_UJE_N0pOjO07-RkK6jmRuQU0kI-DLUaaAvNO/s1600/Phone-767606.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCVBovVXEkBs2q6p9S3F7uoEmFdokXvH8aJqL-GlsbJOD9X6y2L1EzJyQxctf-dTvrMFbalp0Gl33EH3-5jLOE6B10akgitmxghlxJj0d_UJE_N0pOjO07-RkK6jmRuQU0kI-DLUaaAvNO/s320/Phone-767606.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5847139988998549682" /></a><br> <br> End post<br> Mikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05335367037419395331noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7106869722901382132.post-17806817907991963172013-02-20T07:46:00.000+00:002013-02-20T07:50:03.370+00:00Halley VI - inside science modules.The two modules at the south end of the station are the science modules. I posted some pictures last year taken in the science modules, here are some more. This is one of the project labs.<br> <br> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7UoCnDLYtKDTDCnP1n51QO-wRybKgPTpxX1qaziwT9kFmXC8O0ZEie06oj0bve5tricxmPPB6UPS5BuHLSdlm7Xl3W9oPGRIVi3G4GVG8oLX92yDiIWdcUC72VmQ2OXGfFVr730mz0p8i/s1600/In_east-703371.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7UoCnDLYtKDTDCnP1n51QO-wRybKgPTpxX1qaziwT9kFmXC8O0ZEie06oj0bve5tricxmPPB6UPS5BuHLSdlm7Xl3W9oPGRIVi3G4GVG8oLX92yDiIWdcUC72VmQ2OXGfFVr730mz0p8i/s320/In_east-703371.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5846939141443332674" /></a><br> <br> This is the wet chemistry lab.<br> <br> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhx7YRWoN-YwDmpujPrUC_yLbzvsp7abmH0BD2PDfj40mp1bnkB31yZwCLfnvvN8dPlX6XbUJ5R0kuU2coKSW3DtR7XJL5u_qjONARJbOhAigXGzxqTndRgq-jT3GxzxFKnQqe31nDr7ilm/s1600/In_Wet-705358.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhx7YRWoN-YwDmpujPrUC_yLbzvsp7abmH0BD2PDfj40mp1bnkB31yZwCLfnvvN8dPlX6XbUJ5R0kuU2coKSW3DtR7XJL5u_qjONARJbOhAigXGzxqTndRgq-jT3GxzxFKnQqe31nDr7ilm/s320/In_Wet-705358.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5846939150512773874" /></a><br> <br> Here is our science store room from two angles:<br> <br> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEJz0Pk8j09vi9axAEUM1NQlLcMf4iUGCaIZPK6XBZDZDNiB_0lUb9qX4Nj_KB_aX4bVhCqYHGo57FVar2n22xWA6d-xbrjD1sGF0QND13Ffy1DNOEJ3p5aP-xdskxJUv8-evuMHgShIcl/s1600/in_store1-708701.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEJz0Pk8j09vi9axAEUM1NQlLcMf4iUGCaIZPK6XBZDZDNiB_0lUb9qX4Nj_KB_aX4bVhCqYHGo57FVar2n22xWA6d-xbrjD1sGF0QND13Ffy1DNOEJ3p5aP-xdskxJUv8-evuMHgShIcl/s320/in_store1-708701.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5846939160490651778" /></a><br> <br> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzRP_zaYP5c0k06NhCE_Pseq2X55bngaMwF5t8gsvXnJfIWwDA15MLHwix_x4gFe4ogU9Zx-mNr3YWPQlHQa106J2o_XPyw27dLYBRRgx-xnfJkGYFdtJW-r1fwTtcNhPRaUj8VGLgQy1C/s1600/In_store2-711363.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzRP_zaYP5c0k06NhCE_Pseq2X55bngaMwF5t8gsvXnJfIWwDA15MLHwix_x4gFe4ogU9Zx-mNr3YWPQlHQa106J2o_XPyw27dLYBRRgx-xnfJkGYFdtJW-r1fwTtcNhPRaUj8VGLgQy1C/s320/In_store2-711363.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5846939174462175794" /></a><br> <br> At the very end of the station, is the fieldprep room.<br> <br> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjb8FGWFTDh6J3dDM7gwuDfkdv4phZeO18KOoFExaytmiaqe-pohhzIic2d5Nm2zAYakvnmcrQ4ARcOzbPYMvSI_wDD8-JVSSbmSSy5KKHhNR-YV3oTGUtOeeZGL7WgPt22bb0H3zybpolo/s1600/in_fieldprep-713974.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjb8FGWFTDh6J3dDM7gwuDfkdv4phZeO18KOoFExaytmiaqe-pohhzIic2d5Nm2zAYakvnmcrQ4ARcOzbPYMvSI_wDD8-JVSSbmSSy5KKHhNR-YV3oTGUtOeeZGL7WgPt22bb0H3zybpolo/s320/in_fieldprep-713974.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5846939185885835106" /></a><br> <br> And upstairs is the meteorological observation room.<br> <br> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggQz7AjvtL-OaPtw7aoy3HC_DNvC5i3y9OK6hb3EjOgrvdYVnoe8ZGzXAfEy0qdOi2DfZwFzOdcpv2cfSfLuaRalhu6z5LwgjT2GTd4GlnoN__IKsTUZib3xZUKK1tnOfEV5ilQdGNMmY0/s1600/In_obs-716742.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggQz7AjvtL-OaPtw7aoy3HC_DNvC5i3y9OK6hb3EjOgrvdYVnoe8ZGzXAfEy0qdOi2DfZwFzOdcpv2cfSfLuaRalhu6z5LwgjT2GTd4GlnoN__IKsTUZib3xZUKK1tnOfEV5ilQdGNMmY0/s320/In_obs-716742.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5846939197704618498" /></a><br> <br> Every module has its own plant room that controls the hydraulic legs and the heat and vent for that module.<br> <br> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGQVLkRylmu3ChIIKwkMkgcnWf4r_wYxQnzKXyq5owH-gDAC0vwFYW_zVKbzQw1F-H3lgpV06MJLM844tByTxILbdrd-go4FUerR4rR7LsFIQJu2Qj6AWyt7i-5IAZSWLxnPH_Vpio-ErS/s1600/In_plant-718153.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGQVLkRylmu3ChIIKwkMkgcnWf4r_wYxQnzKXyq5owH-gDAC0vwFYW_zVKbzQw1F-H3lgpV06MJLM844tByTxILbdrd-go4FUerR4rR7LsFIQJu2Qj6AWyt7i-5IAZSWLxnPH_Vpio-ErS/s320/In_plant-718153.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5846939206285465394" /></a><br> <br> End post.<br> Mikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05335367037419395331noreply@blogger.com1