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Victoria University Antarctic Research Expedition Science and Logistics Reports 1990-91: VUWAE 35

PREPARATIONS FOR THE FIELD

PREPARATIONS FOR THE FIELD

(i)

We were pleased to find that our Grizzly toboggan had been flown up to Fang as a training exercise at no charge to our helo hours before we arrived.

Preparing for our put-in involved servicing the recording equipment in the science lab, and preparing it for augmented recording involved replacing the VUW telemetry receivers and discriminators with the NSF equipment removed to McMurdo in 1987. Bill McIntosh of S-081 had returned this to Scott Base for the purpose. (Note that the NSF equipment has University of Alaska 1abels, because it was purchased by Juergen KienIe, a foundation member of IHESS from Alaska.) We also had to prepare enough "no useful data" videotapes for reuse, and archive the digital earthquakes to disk and clear the acquisition computer so that recordings could be continuous while we were on Erebus.

(ii)All the field equipment requested Was available and in good condition. Cooking oil and long plastic tent pegs were in short supply.
(iii)The addition of vehicle training to survival training was a welcome improvement, and very well organised by Nick Graves. Alla Fradkin especially benefitted, and proved to be a very able driver on Erebus.
(iv)Delays at Scott Base were minimal. Our put-in was only 1 day behind my planned date.