Photos courtesty of McMurdo (USAP) and Ross Station (Antarctic New Zealand). Thursday, November 26, 2009
Photo Grab #2: Wind Turbine Photos
Photos courtesty of McMurdo (USAP) and Ross Station (Antarctic New Zealand). 
South Pole Traverse Map Update
I'm not quite sure who's doing the South Pole traverse this year, but they started at McMurdo and are heading to the South Pole on skis and whatnot. Map is courtesy of the Canadian Space Agency.
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Operation Deep Freeze
"Operation Deep Freeze
Joint Task Force-Support Forces Antarctica, Operation DEEP FREEZE, is the only U.S. Air Force-led standing JTF. First commanded by famed polar explorer Navy ADM Richard Byrd in 1955, ODF is now supported by the U.S. Air Force, U.S. Navy, U.S. Coast Guard and U.S. Army. JTF-SFA provides operational and logistical support to the National Science Foundation and the NSF’s U.S. Antarctic Program. The U.S. military is uniquely equipped to provide peacetime logistics support to the NSF in the accomplishment of the NSF mission to conduct multi-disciplinary scientific research throughout the Antarctic continent. This involves coordination of inter-continental airlift by USAF C-17s and ski-equipped LC-130s; on-continent, intra-theater airlift by the LC-130s; aeromedical evacuation support; emergency response; sealift; seaport access via USCG icebreakers; bulk fuel supply; port cargo handling by the Navy; and other transportation requirements necessary to assist the NSF in its continent-wide responsibilities in Antarctica. This Department of Defense support is made possible through the provisions of a Congressionally-directed Memorandum of Agreement which exists between the DoD and the NSF.
ODF is unlike any other U.S. military operation currently in existence. It is possibly the U.S. military’s most difficult peacetime mission as Antarctica is the coldest, windiest, highest, driest and most inhospitable continent on the globe. "
- USAF, ODF, Fact Sheet, 2007
Monday, November 23, 2009
Antarctic Conservation League - Presentation #1
UPDATE: The ACL first meeting is postponed until Dec. 2nd due to schedule conflicts for the galley screen. Fine by me, now I can re-edit it and advertise a week longer. Here's a sneak peak of the PPT. I decided to throw in some clips of my summer journeys just to get audience aware of the speaker and show the concept of off-grid, sustainable living.
Cranes and Cookery
Here's my roomate Bill drivin' the big ol' Grove crane. He's helping install the wind farm, the first turbine will be up and running on Wed. This is good news because that's the night of my conservation presentation.
Marinara with some spices.
Don't know what that thing is carrying.
Getting food out of the food warehouse. My room is right across the street from the kitchen and next to the loading dock. I basically live at, in, next to the galley kitchen.
Snow plow going somewhere.
Travelers heading to the airport.
Part of our Thanksgiving food delivery. Thanksgiving for McMurdo is on Nov. 28th. I have no clue what day or time it is elsewhere.
All I know is that there is pumpkin pie and lots of it. Today they made pumpkin cheesecake :)
Raul getting dirty with the chix.
Mmmm....
Steak... from like a few days ago that's been reheated.
How cute... somebody likes me.
Yesterday (Sunday) the snow came back. Much more snow and rain this season.
Gobbles thawin.
My prep cart after the morning. Almost a complete rainbow eh?
Here's where it all went... the Roasted Red Pepper and Wild Rice strudel. Folks tell me it's been the best veg. dish of the season. It was pretty awesome.
This was my first strudel ever, two days ago was my first frittata ever... success or luck, which ever it may be, both meals came out reallllly good. I walk in the morning, Linda throws todays menu at me, I spend 15 minutes on Google compiling recipes in my head, I get the concept, forget everything else, then start from scratch and have fun trying to engineer something I've never done before. This is what I live for. It's always a 50/50.
Oh yea.
The spaghetti frittata.
Snow plow.
For my half day I had to make up 6 2'' pans of baked ginger tempeh in about two hours. It was okay. There has to be a different way to fry up the tempeh.
Marinara with some spices.
Don't know what that thing is carrying.
Getting food out of the food warehouse. My room is right across the street from the kitchen and next to the loading dock. I basically live at, in, next to the galley kitchen.
Snow plow going somewhere.
Travelers heading to the airport.
Part of our Thanksgiving food delivery. Thanksgiving for McMurdo is on Nov. 28th. I have no clue what day or time it is elsewhere.
All I know is that there is pumpkin pie and lots of it. Today they made pumpkin cheesecake :)
Raul getting dirty with the chix.
Mmmm....
Steak... from like a few days ago that's been reheated.
How cute... somebody likes me.
Yesterday (Sunday) the snow came back. Much more snow and rain this season.
Gobbles thawin.
My prep cart after the morning. Almost a complete rainbow eh?
Here's where it all went... the Roasted Red Pepper and Wild Rice strudel. Folks tell me it's been the best veg. dish of the season. It was pretty awesome.
This was my first strudel ever, two days ago was my first frittata ever... success or luck, which ever it may be, both meals came out reallllly good. I walk in the morning, Linda throws todays menu at me, I spend 15 minutes on Google compiling recipes in my head, I get the concept, forget everything else, then start from scratch and have fun trying to engineer something I've never done before. This is what I live for. It's always a 50/50.
Oh yea.
The spaghetti frittata.
Snow plow.
For my half day I had to make up 6 2'' pans of baked ginger tempeh in about two hours. It was okay. There has to be a different way to fry up the tempeh.
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