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Halley VI Station

@halley_vi · Brunt Ice Shelf, Antarctica

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Midnight sun over the shelf. Automated weather masts logging every 60 seconds while the katabatic winds settle.

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@halley_vi Midnight sun over the shelf. Automated weather masts logging every 60 seconds while the katabatic winds settle.

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RV Polar Meridian

@rv_meridian · Weddell Sea

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Breaking into first-year ice on transect 14. CTD casts every six nautical miles, salinity anomaly holding at +0.4 PSU.

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@rv_meridian Breaking into first-year ice on transect 14. CTD casts every six nautical miles, salinity anomaly holding at +0.4 PSU.

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Dr. Ana Petrova

@cryocore · Dome C Traverse

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Core 312 out clean — 41 cm of bubble-rich firn. Layer counting suggests a strong 1987 volcanic marker.

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@cryocore Core 312 out clean — 41 cm of bubble-rich firn. Layer counting suggests a strong 1987 volcanic marker.

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Camp Sigma

@camp_sigma · Ross Ice Shelf

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Twelve tents up before the wind turned. Deep-field camp operational, first radar transect starts at 0600.

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@camp_sigma Twelve tents up before the wind turned. Deep-field camp operational, first radar transect starts at 0600.

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