| Date of Movement |
Personnel moved |
Destinations |
Personnel at site, working tasks, and general comments |
| 21 Oct 00 |
Bertler Watson |
Arrival at Scott Base |
Bertler, Watson and Nicholas
- crevasse extraction training
- preparation of the science gear
- set up on skidoo and sledge
|
| 29 Oct 00 |
Bertler Watson Nicholas Leitch Brice |
Dunlop Island (by Huggland) |
Bertler, Watson, Nicholas, Brice, Leitch
- preparation of the sling loads for transfer to Victoria Lower Glacier
|
| 30 Oct 00 |
Bertler Watson Nicholas |
Victoria Lower Glacier |
Bertler, Watson, Nicholas
- camp set up at VIC 1
- GPS base station set up
- climate station set up
- GPR/GPS survey of the glacier (a total of approximately 30km lines have been measured)
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| 09 Nov 00 |
Watson* Nicholas* Ayling Hendrikx |
Victoria Lower Glacier/Scott Base* |
Bertler, Ayling, Hendrikx
- emergency camp set-up at VIC2
- sampling two snow profiles at VIC 1 and VIC 2 (see location map)
- recovery of ice cores from seven locations (see location map)
- including Pleistocene ice
- GPS survey of all sampling sites
- glacial mass balance measurement
- ablation measurements
- set-up of dust traps
|
| 20 Nov 00 |
Ayling |
Scott Base |
transferred to Scott Base for medical reasons |
| 27 Nov 00 |
Ayling |
Victoria Lower Glacier |
return to field camp |
| 02 Dec 00 |
Bertler Ayling Hendrikx McGowan |
Baldwin Glacier |
Bertler, Ayling, Hendrikx, McGowan
- sampling of snow profile
- set-up of dust traps
- set-up of radiation measurement device for albedo values and radiant heat transfer within the snow pack
- sampling of dust reference material
- detailed hourly weather observation
- GPS survey of glacier topography
|
| 09 Dec 00 |
Bertler Ayling Hendrikx McGowan* |
Wilson Piedmont Glacier/*Scott Base |
Bertler, Ayling, Hendrikx
- camp set-up
- sampling of snow profile
- recovery of ice core
- GPS survey of glacier topography
- detailed weather observation
|
| 14 Dec 00 |
Bertler Ayling Hendrikx |
Scott Base |
Ayling, Hendrikx
- leaving for Chch on 19 Dec 00 Bertler
- work at Crary Lab, McMurdo on ice and snow samples
- leaving for Chch on 02 Jan 01
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