Images of

ANTARCTICA

Science

Photos © 2002 Seth White

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Arrival Heights

US and NZ laboratories are located on this protected area above McMurdo.

Infrasound Station at Windless Bight

Low frequency microphone array installed on the Ross Ice Shelf.

Long Duration Balloon

A scientific balloon launch facility is located at Williams Field. Photos are here from one of the two balloon launches this year.

McMurdo Ground Station

The farthest south NASA tracking station.

Seismic Stations on Mount Erebus

Visit to several sites on the mountain to work on a seismic sensor array used to study this unique volcano.

Cosmic Ray Observatory

The oldest continuously running experiment at McMurdo, and without question the coolest building at McMurdo.

Hunting for Ice Algae

A day spent driving around the sea ice, drilling ice cores to look for ice algae samples (Christmas day 2002).

Gravity Measurements with John Behrendt

John Behrendt was on station this year for a few days. I tagged along with him during some gravity measurements on the ice pier.

Crary Lab

A short page with photos from the Albert P. Crary Laboratory, the hub of science at McMurdo Station.

Other Science Related Photos

Photos of various science related activities, and articles from USA Today and the Antarctic Sun.

Ballooning

A large number of scientific balloon flights were done at McMurdo this year, from February through Winfly 2003. A few pics from various launches are here.

Science Tech Links

Most of the projects I support have informational webpages, some even with real-time data from my instruments! Here is a page with info about these projects.