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Yesterday Camp – Part 8 – “Tremors from Home”

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Part 8 Tremors from Home Our seismometers measure earthquakes and icequakes that ripple through the planet and make the ice beneath our feet tremble.  Sadly, we heard a report of a 6.2 earthquake off the eastern coast of New Zealand that is has stranded thousands and has transformed the city of ChristChurch into a refugee…

A rushed Goodbye to Yesterday Camp
Composer's Blog | Yesterday Camp

Yesterday Camp – Part 9 – “A Rushed Goodbye”

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Part 9 A Rushed Goodbye With the possibility of good weather, our project director Patrick hoped that we would have two teams out in the field today pulling seismometers. Ideally, one team would go to a long distance station in the plane and the second would go to a closer station on the snowmobiles. Unfortunately,…

Yesterday Camp – Part 10 – “The Comforts of Yesterday Camp”
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Yesterday Camp – Part 10 – “The Comforts of Yesterday Camp”

Composer's Blog, Yesterday Camp

Part 10 The Comforts of Yesterday Camp We arrived an hour later at the sea ice airfield and hopped into the shuttle that passed by Scott Base (operated by New Zealand’s version of the NSF) and crossed over Ross Island to McMurdo Station. I was still clad in all the necessary layers of protective clothing…

Yesterday Camp – Part 4 – “The Ross Sea”
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Yesterday Camp – Part 4 – “The Ross Sea”

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Part 4 “The Ross Sea” Readers of my blog know that I have been reading Ernest Shackleton’s memoir South during my Antarctic trip. Had his ship Endurance been freed of the ice in 1914, Shackleton planned on crossing Antarctica and arriving here in the Ross Sea region. Instead, his ship was crushed by sea ice…

Yesterday Camp – Part 5 – “Rime”
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Yesterday Camp – Part 5 – “Rime”

Composer's Blog, Yesterday Camp

Part 5 Rime Here on the ice shelf, water takes many forms and shapes. There is the huge chunk of ice below us and the blanket of snow that covers it. There are the clouds of every shape and size and the snow that falls from them. There is the steam rising above the pot…

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