Hello and welcome. I am about to head off to Antarctica for the second time in my life. Now that we have these wonderful things called blogs, I will be putting photos and journal entries about my travels here - when I have internet access. Yes, they have incredible internet access in McMurdo, but I will be spending most of my time in the Dry Valleys. Here is a nice late-in-the-day photo from our camp in 1999.



The last time I was in Antarctica, I was a graduate student at the University of New Hampshire studying the paleoclimate and atmospheric oscillations of North America through the chemistry of ice cores. Seven years later, The Center for the Environment at Plymouth State University in Plymouth, New Hampshire, is helping me to finish my graduate work and obtain a Master's of Science degree. I am getting back to my "roots" as a geophysicist and studying glacial sediments in the Dry Valleys with the help of ground-penetrating radar (GPR), global positioning systems (GPS), and geographic information systems (GIS). That's a lot of acronyms and they are all so similar!