Oct 16 |
Buckley and Southon travel to Antarctic |
Oct 17 |
Sea ice training |
Oct 18 |
Snow craft course for Southon, preparation for the field. |
Oct 19 |
Preparation for the field. |
Oct 21 |
Preparation for the field. |
Oct 22 |
Preparation for the feild. |
Oct 23 |
Travel to experimental site, Tent Island, and set up camp with K131. |
Oct 24 |
Continue with set up of camp. |
Oct 25 |
Very bad weather, −19°C wind ~ 30 knots. Visit Camp Evans to help with compressor. |
Oct 26 |
Start optical experiments near camp site - site A. Trodahl and Riches fly to Antarctic. |
Oct 27 |
Continue optical experiments at site A. |
Oct 28 |
Instal thermistor array and continue optical work at A. Sea ice course for Trodahl and snow craft for Riches. Trodahl arrives at Tent Island. |
Oct 29 |
Continue optical work. Begin heat capacity experiment on ice at site A. Riches arrives at Tent Island. |
Oct 30 |
Calibration of optical sources. Continue heat capacity experiment. |
Oct 31 |
Undertake a complete set of optical experiments and sea ice physical property measurements near camp. |
Nov 1 |
Continue heat capacity and ice core photo at site A. |
Nov 2 |
Physical property measures, core photo and optical experiment at new site, site B. |
Nov 3 |
Repeat optical experiments at site A. Initiate density measurements at site A. |
Nov 4 |
Very high winds, no work. |
Nov 5 |
High winds again. Trodahl to Scott Base. |
Nov 6 |
UV backscattering at site A, high winds. |
Nov 7 |
High winds, no work. |
Nov 8 |
High winds still, some optical work but data of poor quality. |
Nov 9 |
Good day. Full optical and physical property measurements including density at sue A. |
Nov 10 |
High winds again, no work. |
Nov 11 |
High winds. |
Nov 12 |
High winds.page 99 |
Nov 13 |
Full set of optical and physical property data at site A. |
Nov 14 |
Buckley back to Scott Base. |
Nov 15 |
Buckley fly to New Zealand, some optical measurements. |
Nov 16 |
Pack up camp. |
Nov 17 |
Trodahl, Southon and Riches return to Scott Base. |
Nov 18 |
Bad weather prevents travel to New Zealand. |
Nov 19 |
Bad weather prevents travel to New Zealand. |
Nov 20 |
Bad weather prevents travel to New Zealand. |
Nov 21 |
Trodahl. Southon and Riches return to New Zealand. |