Rosetta-Ice Fieldwork: Season 3, Oct-Dec 2017

Hills of Ross Island on the drive back to McMurdo from the Williams (“Willy”) Field

Front of the Ross Ice shelf

McMurdo Station

The front of the Ross Ice Shelf

Mt. Erebus from Williams (“Willy”) Field

View from rac tent at Willy Field

Off to the LC-130 for our first flight

Rosetta rac-tent

Susan at Willy Field

The Icepod on a nansen sled

Chris, Grant, and Martin prepare the icepod for installation

LC-130 at Willy Field

Isabel and Alec in the rac-tent going over QC-procedures

Grant and Martin monitoring the gravimeters during flight

Chris, one of our flight operators, monitoring icepod equipment

View of the icepod from the bubble door.

View of Transantarctic Mountains.

LC-130

5th grade class sign in Antarctica

View of Transantarctic Mountains

View from Willy field

Looking at flight path

McMurdo Station from the air

Blue ice pools

Antarctica from the air

Antarctica from the air

5th grade sign on flight

Isabel on a walk to hut point

Antarctica from the air

Glaciers and crevasses

Glaciers and crevasses

View from the air near McMurdo

View from the air near McMurdo

Rift in ice shelf

Rift in ice shelf

The front of the Ross Ice Shelf

The front of the Ross Ice Shelf

Ice in front of the Ross Ice Shelf

Sea Ice forming on the water

The front of the Ross Ice Shelf

The front of the Ross Ice Shelf

LC-130 at Willie Field

Delta

Rosetta-Ice team on the pressure ridge tour

Pressure Ridges

Pressure Ridges

Pressure Ridges

Pressure Ridges

Rosetta-Ice team on the pressure ridge tour – trying to keep warm!

Susan at the pressure ridges

Weddell Seal

Baby Weddell Seal

Weddell Seal eating snow

Weddell Seal baby with mother

Weddell Seal mother

Weddell seal nursing her pup

Rosetta-Ice team preparing to run the 5k. Photo credit: Chris Bertinato

Susan ready for the 5k

The Coffeehouse

McMurdo Station from Ob hill

Mt Erebus from Ob Hill

Mt Terror from Ob hill

Transantarctic Mountains from the air.

Transantarctic Mountains from the air.

Transantarctic Mountains from the air.

Transantarctic Mountains from the air.

Crevasses

Front of the Ross Ice shelf

Front of the Ross Ice shelf

Sea ice forming in front of Ross Ice Shelf

Sea ice forming in front of Ross Ice Shelf

Front of the Ross Ice shel

Glacier flow into Ross Ice Shelf

Mt Erebus

Scott’s Discovery Hut

Scott’s Discovery Hut

Hut Point

Cross for George Vince

Scott’s Discovery Hut

Scott’s Discovery Hut

Scott’s Discovery Hut

Inside Scott’s Discovery Hut

Inside Scott’s Discovery Hut

Inside Scott’s Discovery Hut

Memorial Cross for Scott and his party at the top of Ob hill

Memorial Cross sign

Memorial Cross for Scott and his party at the top of Ob hill

The observation tube on the sea ice

Susan prepares to descend into the tube

Maya heading down the observation too

Trying to stay warm near the dive huts

The view from under water in the observation tube

The view from under water in the observation tube

Hut Point on a stormy day

A seal peaks out of a hole in the ice

A seal peeks out of a hole in the ice

Mother seal returns to her baby after a dive

The front of the Ross Ice shelf

Susan at the top of Ob Hill

On the drive from McMurdo to Willie Field

Moon over McMurdo Hills

Sun on the sea ice from Discovery Point

Mcmurdo from Discovery Point

The Icepod in the rac-tent for instrument work.

Pressure Ridges

Pressure Ridges

Team on the way to dinner.

McMurdo Hospital

Isabel, Susheel, Maya, and Martin on a hike up Ob Hill

Hasty retreat from our hike due to rapidly deteriorating conditions

Storming blowing in

NASA trailer for moving equipment in the snow

Part of the rosetta team enjoying lunch together

The galley at McMurdo

Our Matt Track vehicle for driving aroudn the airfiled

The Rosetta-Ice team busy QC-ing in the rac-tent

The McMurdo “Movie Theater”

Weddell Seal

Willie Field on the ice shelf

Susan at the top of Ob Hill

White island

Scott Base

Containers around McMurdo

Helicopter moving fuel drums

Containers around McMurdo

Warming hut

McMurdo

Lots of Deltas

road between Hospital and Galley

LC-130 moving to fuel pits

LC-130 being worked on

Inside the cockpit of the LC-130 during take off