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An incredible day and night

Posted by Emma Pearson (Newcastle University), UK on 24 November 2011

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Today was the best day yet - the most beautiful sunny day with blue skies, incredible to think I am in Antarctica and can get weather like it was today!

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Digging to find our sample sites

Posted by Emma Pearson (Newcastle University), UK on 20 November 2011

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We ventured up to Lake Mateus today, through the snow drift from the last couple of days, equipped with shovels.

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Snow, penguins and pizza

Posted by Emma Pearson (Newcastle University), UK on 19 November 2011

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Today was full of blizzard and snow drift, very atmospheric but still not a good day to trek to our lake to do fieldwork. Instead Steve and I braved the elements to have a look at the lakes within the Jubany base area.

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A perfect day, a perfect start

Posted by Anne-Cathrin Wölfl (AWI), Germany on 17 November 2011

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Let’s start with yesterday. It was one of those days, when you have to be ready for departure all the time - the weather is just good enough that you think you can get out, but bad enough that they don’t want to let you out. [blog in English and Spanish]

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News from the Dallmann crew ...

Posted by Nina Wittenberg (AWI), Germany on 16 November 2011

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With one week of stormy weather everybody used the time to set up their equipment. Today we finally have the first day with almost no wind. [blog in English and Spanish]

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Arriving at Jubany...

Posted by Christian Hass (AWI), Germany on 10 November 2011

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We starteted on October 26th in Hamburg to fly via Franfurt to Buenos Aires. On the 30th we took a bus to Mar del Plata which is a comfortable way to travel since the buses are very much like the first class in an aircraft.

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New ice-free areas in Potter Cove, an opportunity for ascidian´s populations?

Posted by Cristian Lagger, Ricardo Sahade (UNC), Argentina on 18 May 2011

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A rapid retreatment of Fourcade glacier could be associated with a significant increase of air temperature over the past 15 years in Potter Cove.

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Developing macroalgal gardens in Potter Cove

Posted by Gabriela Campana (IAA), Argentina on 13 April 2011

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As an associated project to IMCOAST we are focussing on the ecology and ecophysiology of macroalgae in Potter Cove. 

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Potter Cove Talk

Posted by Ulrike Falk (ZFL), Germany on 4 March 2011

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Besides the work we get to see a lot of wild life. This also means to watch out for Skua attacks from above, that remind of Alfred Hitchcocks "The Birds".

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Working hard...

Posted by Ulrike Falk (ZFL), Germany on 3 March 2011

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As soon the weather allowed we went straight onto the glacier to check out our weather stations.

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