McMurdo: Creative and Scholarly Activities Retreat

As some of you may know, G097's field season did not go as planned (despite the fact that it was pre-planned via the ORW that went through three iterations and the SIP , followed by the RSP). Last year, our team did not achieve a field put-in at all, but rather waited, waited and waited for transport to our field site from a waypoint at Siple Dome.  After much reflection, we investigators of anatexis and crustal differentiation  set upon an alternative course of action in McMurdo station, that we suspected might bring about an on time put in / personnel exchange now at the midpoint of the season.  With the groundwork well laid by Chris Y. and Fawna , Christine and Mike worked with coauthors Mark Fanning and Rory McFadden (pictured below) to get a manuscript ready for submission so that it can ‘incubate’ (undergo peer review) while we are in the field.  The strategy has been to stay so utterly preoccupied by other matters that our put in day would arrive and take us unawares by happening at the first possible moment. Which is today.  Let’s see what happens! If there are no posts appearing here in short order... it means that we are in the field!

Here's the title of the paper, and Antarctic pics of our colleagues!

Colleague Mark Fanning in the field in Antarctica

Rory McFadden at Mt Ferranto in 2006