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Day 60 -- 22 December 2012 -- Sponge Collection on the Dirty Ice at Britina Island
One of the aspects of our project is to determine what the background organisms are so we can assess how different the microbial communities are on our traps. Laurie has been looking at the fungal communities associated with marine sponges- part of the group of animals we find near our trap at the Cape Evans wall.
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Day 59 -- 21 December 2012 -- Happy Solstice!
When we first arrived in McMurdo we still had sunrise and sunset, although the daylight was long. On 23 October we got our last sunset for the field season and it is now 24 hours a day of daylight. But today marks a shift in our pattern. For us in the far southern hemisphere, the December solstice is when the sun begins to shift downward toward the horizon as we slowly move into our long winter night.
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Day 55 -- 17 December 2012 -- Lake Fryxell, Taylor Valley, Antarctica
Taylor Valley, known as one of the Dry Valleys, is located on the Antarctica continent and is home to lakes Fryxell, Hoare, and Bonney. Although the receding glaciers that carved the valley are not quite as massive as they once were, glaciers are still present. The largest input of liquid water to the Fryxell, although still comparatively minimal, comes from the Canada and Commonwealth glaciers.
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Day 31 -- 23 November 2012 -- Ice Caves on Mt Erebus
Active volcanoes not only spew lava, but also hot gases, some of them toxic, some of them just warm air with various amounts of steam and CO2. The vents for such gases are called fumaroles. They commonly form as magma brings groundwater to a boil, forming steam that mixes with volcanic gas and air from the cracks and pores in the volcano, and finally rising to the surface.
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Day 22 -- 14 November 2012 -- Polar Mirage
Polar mirage Here in McMurdo we often see mirages when looking across McMurdo Sound to the Royal Society range or Mount Discovery. These are specifically a form of superior mirage where alternating cold layers and warm layers of air bend the light and can form fantastical images, often appearing like cliffs or upside down mountains
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Day 20 -- 12 November 2012 -- Our Labwork
Antarctica is not all about fun in the snow; our highest priority for the duration of our visit here is research. Charges, defined as multiple packets of rock substrates with different mineral contents and glass slides, have been exposed to the environment for periods of up to four years.
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Websites about the Seventh Continent
The Antarctic Sun Newspaper
NSF's United States Antarctic Program (USAP)
International Polar Year
First Flights to South Pole
The Radio Alphabet Explained
South Pole Philately
C17 Globemaster III
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GOLF-439 Websites
2008-2009 GOLF-439 Field Season
2010-2011 GOLF-439 Field Season
2012-2013 GOLF-439 Field Season
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Expedition Related Links
Penobscot Indian School
Encounters at the End of the World
Loihi Seamount
Vailulu'u Seamount
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We are four scientists from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Oregon Health and Science University and the School of Marine Sciences at the University of Maine studying microbial life in extreme cold and dry environments. On this website we will provide you with regular updates of the GOLF439 Expedition to share our adventures, challenges and findings!
Alpha Romeo
Hotel Sierra
Bravo Tango
Lima Charlie
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~ Anthony Rigoni (OHSU, left)
~ Hubert Staudigel (SIO, left middle)
~ Brad Tebo (OHSU, right middle)
~ Laurie Connell (SMS-UM, right)
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We are the GOLF439 Home Team and will work on the microbial experiments and samples as they are retrieved from the extreme environment of Antarctica. We will provide you with reports from our lab results!
Alexis Templeton Craig Cary Greg Wanger
Anthony Koppers Patty Keizer Rupert Minnett Don Dingwell Shawn Doan Scott Craig | University of Colorado University of Delaware Craig Ventner Institute at UCSD Oregon State University Scripps Institution of Oceanography Scripps Institution of Oceanography Ludwig Maximilians Universitaet Muenchen Sehome High School, Bellingham, WA US Fish and Wild Life Service, Orland, ME |
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