I think my favorite part of any voyage to Antarctica is getting to
take people who have never been to Antarctica and getting to take
them there for the first time and showing them just how magic it is.
We were out there for two months with a job of building four new
huts out in the field location, along with a range of tent platforms
to set up for a large scientific campaign around the Denman Glacier
in season 23–24 next summer.
The traverse this year from Casey to Little Dome C.
And our mission really was to get there and hopefully get to take some
ice core, which we did each day. We traveled probably around 80km,
and in total, one way was about 1200 kilometers.
Antarctic vegetation, which includes moss and lichens and cyanobacteria,
is really a big deal. It is the primary form of life in
our frozen part of the planet.
We've just retrieved Kombi two from the seafloor.
It's been down there for the last two years and the purpose of this
Kombi was to help us understand how Antarctic krill use these
seafloor habitats in this area. So we're really excited to see
what data this is. Collected and we're going to put it
in a container and take it home.