Swirling through 155 in search of my first meal, I ran into Karen Joyce, my POC (point of contact) here in McMurdo. She introduced me to David and uhh… Natalie? […]

Not sure if I’ve mentioned it, but McMurdo is having an unprecedented housing shortage. We’re here to support the scientists, and the NSF has manifested a few more than the […]

My first impressions of McMurdo are that, despite the inherent otherworldliness of the continent, it’s all manageable. That first breath of Antarctic air, walking across the ice runway to Ivan […]

Christchurch isn’t what I expected. Then again, I’ve been so absorbed with the process of getting ready to go out to the ice, I hadn’t put any thought into actually […]

Saturday, 5 a.m. and my head’s still spinning. Two days into TDY (“temporary duty”) in Denver, and my mental balance has tipped way over into what-the-hell-am-I-doing-land. Okay, I’d spent a […]

Wait – isn’t that in Colorado? I thought you were going to the South Pole! Well yes, but I’m going by way of a few days of USAP training and […]

I post pretty irregularly, and bunch of folks who don’t use reader software tell me that they keep missing posts because they don’t know how often to check back. I […]