As of this writing,  all ANSMET personnel have left Antarctica and are on their way home via Christchurch,  NZ.   I will put together a post to wrap-up the season sometime in about a week,  so stay tuned…..   Ralph… Read more »

- Ralph Harvey,  Case Western Reserve U. this just in, circa 1:20 pm east coast US time.   Jim, Andrew and Rob are finally back in McMurdo after several days stuck at Otway…..  And a couple of people (Mini and… Read more »

Stan Love McMurdo Station, Antarctica 2013 January 23 “If you’ve done ANSMET, you’ve done long duration space flight.” – Don Pettit, ANSMET veteran and three-time Space Shuttle and International Space Station crew member. A future human mission to Mars will… Read more »

Katie Joy, Recon Team, 19th January, 2012, SOUTH POLE Hello. Hope you are well. The ANSMET recon team have escaped 13 straight tent days and the bad weather of Szabo Bluff, and are currently all safely housed at the USAP… Read more »

Hi,   Ralph Harvey here,  PI of ANSMET. The field team has asked me to fill you in on news from this season that didn’t show up in the blog because they weren’t sure how to deal with;  there’s more… Read more »

Rob Coker, Larkman Nunatak, December 25, 2012 The public tale of the 2012-2013 ANSMET Expedition, funded by various Institutions interested in acquiring Knowledge for its own sake, has been told elsewhere, most prominently in our public wireless reports.  Here, today, with the… Read more »

One of the most common questions I get when people find out I run ANSMET is,  “How can you stand being away from home over the holidays?”   My answer is simple;  Christmas in the field is pretty special,  too.  Without… Read more »

“hurry up and wait” is an expression the 2012 ANSMET team is learning the true meaning of lately.   Today we finished packing the last of our supplies; frozen food that we will consume over the next 6 weeks (picture… Read more »