The Frozen Ramblings of a Marine Biologist. All good things must end. Well I have been out at sea for nearly a month. We are nearly back across the Drake and should be back in Punta Arenas in a few days. Goodbye ice- you looked so nice. And goodbye fish, just one last kiss.

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Patty Elkus Joins APS Board of Governors. The American Polar Society is pleased to welcome Patty Elkus to the Board of Governors, whose name becomes synonymous with the Scripps Institution of Oceanography by virtue of her position on its . First Arctic Cargo Shipped Through the Northwest Passage. Arctic Wreck Found After 169 Years.

A personal perspective on a wide range of Antarctic topics such as weather, penguins, history, photography, jobs, and tourism by someone who has worked and lived there. My most recent season at the South Pole was November and December 2008. My photos of Antarctica are available at Dreamstime. Schneider family web pages at kulgun.

NZDT, completing the full return of 90,000 pounds. The Twin Otter loaded down with our gear and cargo. Coming in for the landing at PIG. The berm, buried to the top in places.

CIA World Factbook - Antarctica. Fabian Gottlieb Thaddeus von Bellingshausen. Take it all in all, I do not believe anybody on earth has a worse time than an Emperor penguin.

FOLLOW MY TRAVEL AND EXPERIENCES WORKING AT CASEY STATION, ANTARCTICA. The end of the season. With only a couple more scheduled flights of the airbus this week. and me being scheduled to depart on the last flight, the end of the season is fast approaching. Last weeks airbus flight arrived a day late after being delayed due to poor weather. As mentioned in the previous blog entry, we have had a media crew here from the 60 minutes program. This crew departed on the flight after spending a week here.