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Installation of the eddy covaricance sensor

Posted by Ulrike Falk (ZFL), Germany on 6 October 2012

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After six months of preparations and great support by Campbell Scientific and AWI logistics, the overwintering scientist, Damián López, and I finally installed the sensor to measure the water vapor and carbon dioxide content of air back to the eddy covariance system.

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Arrival at Carlini

Posted by Ulrike Falk (ZFL), Germany on 29 September 2012

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This year, the arrival to the Argentine station on King George Island was very smooth. The Chilean Hercules left at 8:20 on September 25. after arriving on the Fieldes Peninsula, King George Island, I just waited about an hour at the landing strip for the weather to clear up so that the helicopter could take of.

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Science in the pink tent

Posted by Susann Henkel & Michael Staubwasser (University of Cologne), Germany on 2 April 2012

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Back from Antarctica since three weeks, we are waiting for our equipment and the samples to return on the Russian cruise vessel Polar Pioneer.  Next to sediment and porewater samples that we collected together with Jan, about 250 kg of filtered  water from Maxwell Bay are making their way to Germany.

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Winter is coming back

Posted by Harald Poigner (AWI), Germany on 26 March 2012

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More than a week ago the last scientists and our two AWI colleagues, Dirk and Eberhard, left the station to make their way home.

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Renaming of Jubany Station

Posted by María Liliana Quartino (IAA), Argentina on 12 March 2012

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On March 5th 2012, the Argentine President Cristina F. de Kirchner announced the renaming of Jubany Station to Dr. Alejandro Carlini by the official Decree 309/ 03.05.2012.

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My second visit to Jubany

Posted by Ann Vanreusel (Ghent University), Belgium on 27 February 2012

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This is my second visit to Jubany. I have already visited the Jubany station in January-February 2010 and that was an extraordinary experience. So I was really excited to find out that also this year our application was approved and that I could leave for another expedition to this wonderful place near Potter Cove on King Georges Island. 

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News from the glacier group

Posted by Ulrike Falk (ZFL), Germany on 8 February 2012

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After our rather late arrival at Jubany station, we first had to deal with several problems connected to the last overwintering crew like missing or broken equipment. But after a two weeks of reorganization and a lot of help of the present station's crew and commander, we find ourselves in the middle of a very nice and smooth campaign.

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Sediment traps and other obstacles

Posted by Sanja Asendorf (ICBM), Germany on 6 February 2012

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About one and a half months ago, Jöran and I (Sanja) started our trip to Antarctica. Everything went different than planned. Actually we should have arrived at Antarctica before New Year’s Eve, but the Argentinean logistics thwarted our plans.

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Iron in the water...

Posted by Susann Henkel (Cologne University) & Jan Hartmann (Heidelberg University), Germany on 31 January 2012

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We arrived in Jubany (Isla 25 de Mayo) on Tuesday, 15.01.2012. The temperature difference to Buenos Aires, where we started our travel, was about 25°C and the both of us directly caught a cold.

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Whales in Potter Cove... Video profiles... Christmas... Farewells, or not...

Posted by Anne-Cathrin Wölfl (AWI), Germany on 30 December 2011

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Last week we were able to work five days in a row. Every day the video recordings improved a little bit more and at the end of the week, we managed to drive the first video profiles from approximately 90 m to 3 m depth.

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