Meet the team

22 December, 2013
McMurdo Station, Antarctica

Introducing our team as they appear from left to right:

Robin Bolsey: a specialist from UCSC who has been a huge help to us in getting our equipment operational for the field

Carolyn Branecky: Me, one of the lab's newest graduate students.  I'll be working on the GPS component of the project.

Neil Foley: Another graduate student at UCSC.  His primary research is on electrical resistivity in the Dry Valleys in Antarctica, but he'll be great to have with us in the field.

Slawek Tulaczyk: The P.I., our graduate advisor.  This will be his second project in Antarctica this season.  He just came to us from the Dry Valleys, where they are using the IceMole to drill beneath Blood Falls in Taylor Glacier.

Grace Barcheck: Another graduate student from UCSC.  She is heading the seismology part of the project.

Matt Siegfried: Graduate student at Scripps Institute of Oceanography.  He's implementing continuous GPS units on the Whillans Ice Stream.

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Doug Bloomquist: A polar field engineer from PASSCAL, will be helping with the seismology part of the project.
Susan Schwartz: professor from UCSC, studies seismology
Dan Sampson: an engineer from UCSC that designed our borehole temperature and tilt sensors.

Some drillers will be joining us in a few weeks after traversing across the ice with a lot of equipment in tow.  Around the same time, Susan and Dan will be fly down to meet us as well and help out with the borehole component of the project.

In our dreams.  Compliments of Neil Foley.