*Tap *tap *tap .... Is this thing on?
It has been a while since I have posted here, but I am happy to report I am once again preparing for another trip to Antarctica! In fact, I'm tentatively scheduled to depart three weeks from today. It seems so far away, yet so close! Much has happened since my last post, some of which I will cover in this post and some in later posts. I have (again) gone through the PQ (Physical Qualification) process and am just awaiting my travel documents. We tentatively expect to be on the ice for about five weeks but the scope of the work this time will be primarily to do maintenance on each site and prepare them for another winter season. As with last year, I'll be updating my blog again with updates on each site as we progress during our time on the ice. With regards to the sites themselves, all four sites that we installed last year appear to have survived the winter and are still transmitting data back to us here in Boulder. As part of the installations, we had installed webcams tha