If you haven’t yet read The View from Antarctica: Coronavirus, check that post out first. It documents my understanding of coronavirus while living in a remote field camp in Antarctica, as well as travel on a research vessel back toward South America. In a whirlwind of events following a day of extremely slow cruising toward and through the Straits of Magellan, everything worked out – in the opinion of most…
It was sometime in mid-January when our Cape Shirreff population of 4 first heard about it. You know of what I speak; I don’t even have to name it. I was doing my usual glance through the New York Times Digest that Palmer Station emailed us daily when I saw a blurb about a new virus in China. While sharing limited tidbits from the Times with the others in camp,…
Week 1: F 27 October 2017, 22:38. Cape Shirreff, Livingston Island, Antarctica For months now I’ve been saying the phrase “It’ll feel more real when…” to talk about my then-pending Antarctic experience. The idea I’d really been given a position working with penguins and seals in Antarctica had always been a dream – not a reality. After briefly interviewing and then getting offered the position while working on Buldir this…
Sorry for the lack of posts, but having just under a month and a half of internet between remote gigs made other things the priority. After returning to Homer I spent about 10 days there wrapping up data and putting away field gear. I went up to Fairbanks to walk the lovely Equinox Marathon and have a week with my Dad at the tail end of his 3 weeks of…