On the Ice Blog

Our 2023-24 field season has concluded! And in fact, Dave and Wenhua redeployed on 10 January. This post will be a wrap-up of our last few weeks on the ice, going over the final site …

It’s been a while! We’ve fortunately been busy with many flights and site visits! So this post will mostly be a photo dump of those site visits. Enjoy! 22 Nov: Helo to Minna Bluff 23 …

Wenhua and I did our first two helo flights! Last Friday, 17 Nov, we went on our first flight to our two AWS at Marble Point, Marble Pt and Marble Pt II. We flew there …

Since we’ve arrived, Wenhua and I have been busy with the typical field season preparations: attending trainings for field safety in Antarctica; getting our radios and Iridium satellite phones and trained on how to use …

Let the 2023-24 AWS field season commence! This season, we will have two field team members for a couple months: myself (Dave Mikolajczyk) and Wenhua Wu, who works in the accounting department at SSEC. This …

Posted: December 16, 2022   Angie and I were able to go out on Tuesday 6 Dec. to look for Ferrell AWS once again. Using some projected calculations, we set out and ended up finding …

This past week we had planned to go to Margaret AWS on Monday 28 Nov., but we were cancelled due to the weather at the station. And again on Tuesday… but Wednesday was finally nice …

This past week started out a little slow to get a break from the physical work we did last week and to prep for the incoming week. The weather was good to us again this …

I know we have been quiet the past two weeks, but there is good reason for that! Our cargo was quite delayed in getting here – we got it delivered to us 12 November! There …

Hello all, the 2022-2023 Automatic Weather Station (AWS) Program field season has begun! We have two groups coming down this season, Team A and Team B. Myself (Taylor Norton) and Angie Montgomery consist of Team …