Antarctica 2002: Coring dry valley lakes for paleolimnology

This is NOT Antarctica. This is New Zealand. I guess that you knew that.

Flying in a crowded military plane to McMurdo. No fun whatsoever.

Bernd Wagner from U. Koln (Germany)

Mount Erebus smoking 3900 meters above the sea ice

Bernd Wagner in front of Scott Hut in McMurdo

Polygonal pattern on Taylor Valley floor

Preparing our sleeping quarters at Lake Hoare field station

A rare snowy day on Lake Hoare

Sunset on Canada Glacier (it was october)

A young Peter Doran in 2002

Sound can tell you so much... at least if you are Bernd Wagner. Lake Hoare.

East Lake Bonney, Taylor Valley

It was midnight, Peter Doran and I went to work.

Blue ice of the moat of Lake Fryxell

Canada glacier; from the Lake Hoare side.

Ekman dredge sample from Lake Hoare

Sub-millimeter lamination separated by coarse sand layers, within the top 20 cm of a Lake Fryxell gravity core.

Dr. Bernd Wagner, collecting glacier berries (blocks of ice that are used for drinking water) in front of Canada Glacier (Lake Fryxell)

East Lake Bonney

Peter, what have you done this time? I told you not to break every rock with your hammer. Nice FROST WEDGE break.

The UIC team

EAST LAKE BONNEY

LAKE HOARE AFTER A SNOW FALL

LAKE HOARE, WITH ITS VERY ROUGH ICE SURFACE

LAKE FRYXELL AFTER A SNOW FALL