Antarctica 2010: Going deeper in Lake Vida ice

Transantarctic Montain and glaciers

From the ice cap to the ocean via the Transantarctic Mountain.

October sun at midnight in McMurdo .

Bernd Wagner, great friend and correr.

Brian Glazer, just fresh from New Zealand

Alison Murray, just of the plane from New Zealand

Peter Doran covering a sun burn with solar lotion.

Hillary Dugan , PhD candidate at the time, now Dr. Dugan.

The cleanest cable ever.

Halloween in McMurdo is wild. This our team.

Windy?

Taking a break in our preparation to see a seal coming out in an observation hole in the sea ice.

Scott's hut in the fore ground and McMurdo station in the background.

Taylor Valley, Lake Fryxel and Canada glacier on the right side

Lake Vida

The frozen lake, the camp, the dune...

Ventifacts in Vida Granite

Lake Vida and West Victoria Valley

Ventifacts in dolerite, Lake Vida in the background

Seth Young pulling is camera out of his bag near a dolerite ventifact

Sampling sand in the dolerite.

From the top: dolerite, granite, dolerite, granite, moraine with dolerite, Lake Vida

Peter Doran near nice granite ventifact

Xenolith in granite

Boudinage in metamorphic xenolith

Brian Glazer taking picture from the point of view of a tardigrade. It was a nice shot.

The 5 km long Lake Vida

Peter imitating a dead seal. he does not have the teeth (see next photo)

Skull of the lost seal

Ventifacts in a moraine, in front of a large dune

View of the borehole.

Brian Glazer cleaning the coring tent

Fabien Kenig cleaning the coring tent

A coring tent ready for next day's operations.

Brian Glazer covered like if it was Antarctica. Right, it was Antarctica.

Peter Glenday, our beloved camp manager, protecting us from high fructose corn syrup and other culinary dangers.

Jay Kyne, our favorite ice driller. Long life to the side winder.

Emanuele (Ema) Kuhn, PhD candidate at the time, now Dr Kuhn

Tired of red and blue, let's go B&W. NSF helicopter on Lake Vida.

Noble Gas sampling for Clara Castro (University of Michigan)

Ema in a rush, sampling, sampling, sampling.

Sampling, sampling, sampling, stinky brine, stinky brine, stinky brine

Alison Murray with her smile back: Sampling was done and well done.

C-130. Fist time I fly and touch a propeller at the same time.

Large dune on the North side of Lake Vida