Four boreholes drilled successfully

26 January 2014
Site 2b, Whillans Ice Stream

When we first arrived to the grounding zone, the light on the mountains was gorgeous.

Site 2A location, Bush Mts in the background

Slawek with the seispod at the bottom of the cable.

Back row: Grace, Slawek
Middle row: Susan, Dan, Neil, Matt
Front: Me

This afternoon we finished deploying instruments in our fourth and last borehole. These last two boreholes were located near the grounding line of the Whillans Ice Stream.

We have been doing maintenance on a GPS array
near here that has been collecting data for the past couple years. We were excited to find that several of them have been running throughout the entire year, being powered by solar energy in the summer and wind energy in the winter. Today we will put in a few more GPS units. Tomorrow is a packing day and then we head back to the now-almost-abandoned CReSIS camp for our flight out of the field. We are really happy with what we have been able to accomplish this season!