Ice, White & Blue

Redhead Amok in Antarctica

Current Polie Winterover Blogs

Since I don't post that often, nor do I include photographs, I thought I'd pass these blogs on to you. These are all people currently wintering at Pole with me.

Nathan Greenland: Freeze Dried Engineer Nathan is the FEMC Project Engineer.

Erin Wilkinson: Erin on Ice  Erin is our Grub Lugger.

Patrick Cullis: Calvinball  Cully is a beaker (scientist) for ARO, and our best photographer.

Jeremy Johnson: Frozen at the Pole   Jeremy is our Work Order Scheduler.

Marc Weekley: Capt. Splash on Ice  Marc is a beaker for ARO.

Weeks Heist: The Year of Winter  Weeks is the Facilities Engineer, and a whole lot more.

Michele Gentille: Harriett's Tomato Michele is the head chef, and my goodness can this woman cook.

Keith Reimink: One Long Night  Another cook, and filmmaker.

When you get bored with my words, head over there. Hopefully between the bunch of us you'll get your fix of South Pole lurking even when our brains turn to mush and we become non-compos mentis  and incommunicado as winter progresses.

posted by: coldwish at 05/20/09 00:06 | link | comments (3) |
south pole waste winter 2009

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#1  22 May 2009 - 11:30

 

Do you have any geologists or astronomers/astrophysicists on hand? I'd hate to force myself on more captive Polies, but the texts and intarwebs are inadequate for some of the nuances of what I'm writing about. Besides, Neil Tyson and his buddies are inundated with 5th grader fanmail.

Take care!

rogerdr

#2  22 May 2009 - 19:45

 

No geology at the south pole, seeing as we are all ice. Only amateur astronomers on hand, no scientist with that as their area of expertise as far as I can see. But a lot of very intelligent beakers who could probably point you in the right direction.

G.

coldwish

#3  23 May 2009 - 05:57

 

You'd be surprised where you might find geologists. They're a dime a dozen, it seems. I'm guessing that there would be more at McMurdo, but few of them actually spend most of their careers hitting rocks together. Most spend their time tediously looking over enhanced sattelite photos for clues to finding gas and oil fields. Another bunch skew off to become archeologist or paleontologists. I would expect some to gravitate to ice cores. :p

rogerdr

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