tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38787016928829079252024-03-12T19:33:08.141-07:00Southern Ocean and AntarcticaI am a physical oceanographer working for the British Antarctic Survey. Also very keen on wildlife.Hughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04711862890216257381noreply@blogger.comBlogger88125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3878701692882907925.post-92024824789969908622014-03-03T13:31:00.002-08:002014-10-08T08:19:28.340-07:00Rothera International Airport<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A mid-season visit. The plane crashed on take-off last year and was repaired in situ before being flown out</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">ALCI Basler C-GEAI after repairs</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">BAS Twin Otter leaving northbound (no skis)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The view from the lab window</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">BAS Dash 7 landing</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Borek Basler in Canadian colours</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Borek Twin Otter</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Perhaps a tad on the snowy side</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ken Borek Twin Otter. The nose is stubbier than the BAS Twin Otters.</td></tr>
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Rothera is the hub for BAS air operations across western Antarctica. As such Twin Otter flights are regular, delivering or collecting people and kit and restocking fuel depots. With wheel-skis they can land on the solid runways and on snow. The Dash 7 also flies south to Ski Blu, landing on the blue-ice runway with wheels. Early and late in the season, and sometimes in between, many planes from other operators transit through Rothera. Stopping here allows them to take off their skis before the long haul to Punta Arenas in Chile. Planes with board-skis can land on the snow skiway just off base, change to wheel-skis, hop down to base and the change again to wheels.
Hughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04711862890216257381noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3878701692882907925.post-27166006180626628982014-03-01T07:53:00.000-08:002014-10-08T08:21:41.332-07:00Fossil Bluff - the surroundings<div class="mobile-photo">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Belemnite Fossil, fairly common in some areas</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Frost-shattered rock. Fossil Bluff includes many glacial and periglacial featured that you're encouraged to imagine on geography field trips happening 10-20,000 years earlier in the Lake District.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The glacier feeding into Belemnite Valley. The aspect makes it asymmetrical, with greater loss from the north-facing side</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A light dusting of snow near the cottage</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Looking towards Pyramid (750m high, mostly scree). A horseshoe walk is possible around the corrie glacier</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lichen, other than a single skua this was the only other living thing we found (mould in the kitchen excluded)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Looking over the base (hidden) towards Succession Cliffs</td></tr>
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The stunning surroundings around Fossil Bluff. It certainly lives up to
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Hughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04711862890216257381noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3878701692882907925.post-28845973741035977892014-03-01T07:13:00.000-08:002014-10-08T08:22:44.895-07:00Fossil Bluff - base and planes<div class="mobile-photo">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bluebell Cottage, Fossil Bluff.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Inside the cottage, water tank and sink. Warm water is from the kettle</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cooking and food area. There used to be an aga where the reflex stove now is</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Remains of two muskegs - predecessors of skidoos but too heavy</td></tr>
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Fossil Bluff is now a manned fuel depot about 200 miles south of Rothera. It was first occupied, including for several winters, as a base for geological fieldwork on Alexander Island and the Peninsula across the sound. Work for those staying (normally two or three people) is hourly weather obs for flying and refuelling planes passing through to or from further afield. The skiway is just some firm snow (unless it gets too warm, it has gone soft in summer some years), there are no vehicles to groom it.
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Other than that there is some good walking and domestic cooking and cleaning jobs. There is a reflex stove that runs on the dregs from the barrels and a couple of primus stoves. Water is collected in gerry cans from the stream (a perhaps surprising thing to find at 71S)
Hughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04711862890216257381noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3878701692882907925.post-41975718590609487052014-03-01T06:31:00.000-08:002014-12-09T02:20:22.614-08:00Fossil Bluff - the flying<div class="mobile-photo">
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I finally got to fly off station, for a six day stay at Fossil Bluff mid season. The Twin Otters are fantastic pieces of kit, flying out from base to either manned fuel depots (Fossil Bluff and Sky Blu) or to unknown areas of snow where the pilots fly low to check out the area for crevasses and strasugi and, if happy, land.
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On the way south I was co-pilot so flew the plane most of the way (except take-off, landing and a break for photos) while the pilot did the paperwork. The cargo was five oil drums, to maintain the depot for planes going further afield. On the way back I was a passenger, so more chance for photos. It also allowed me to check the ice conditions for my ocean glider (basically a remote controlled submarine) so I could send it further afield.
Hughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04711862890216257381noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3878701692882907925.post-42782633355293437282014-03-01T03:25:00.000-08:002014-03-01T04:15:26.516-08:00Adelie Penguins, Rothera<div class="mobile-photo">
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<br />Hughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04711862890216257381noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3878701692882907925.post-50326534039727866492014-02-28T07:23:00.000-08:002014-10-08T08:28:05.160-07:00Rockhopper Penguins, Falklands<div class="mobile-photo">
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Delayed post (from 22nd December) as the first one failed
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A small number breed round the point and can be seen and heard in the late eveningsHughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04711862890216257381noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3878701692882907925.post-91812995349564600172013-12-30T17:05:00.000-08:002013-12-31T17:51:03.164-08:00More penguins and ice<div class="mobile-photo">
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A selection of airborne penguins, penguins on ice and penguin tracks on
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the ice floes we were passing (or breaking). Taken around the South
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Orkneys as we dropped people off at Signy and Powell Island.Hughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04711862890216257381noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3878701692882907925.post-89495637036172626192013-12-27T06:36:00.000-08:002014-02-28T08:12:21.812-08:00Gentoo penguins, Bertha's Beach<div class="mobile-photo">
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Quick stomp along the beach from Mare Harbour during bunkering
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operations to the Gentoo Penguin colony was well worth it. There are
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four subcolonies close together, olphin with several non-breeding birds
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hanging around the edges. One skua was in attendance trying to get the
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chicks and a few Dolphin Gulls hanging around for scraps.Hughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04711862890216257381noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3878701692882907925.post-69563636310606027052013-12-21T07:56:00.000-08:002013-12-21T07:56:05.086-08:00Around Stanley, Falklands<div class="mobile-photo">
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Test post (dodgy internet connection), there may be all the right photos, but they are probably not in the right order <br />
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Quick trip out to Gypsy Cove on the evening we arrived in Stanley was worth it to take advantage of the unusually calm and sunny conditions. Plenty of Magellanics around the colony, a few Gentoos mixed in and somevery distant King Penguins.
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An unusual sight along the shore towards Stanley was three Coscoroba Swans, which I haven't seen in the area before. They have shoveler-like bills, with curved ends and filaments for sieving the water and were happily feeding away unperturbed by people.
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Also along the shore, and under the jetty to FIPASS (Falklands Interim Port and Storage System, built 1983), were some Black-crowned Night Herons. Hughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04711862890216257381noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3878701692882907925.post-9262725819339735072013-12-17T03:35:00.000-08:002013-12-17T03:35:25.061-08:00Off again (for a while)The time has come round again, the music in the shops, the queues for the car parks, the Redwings eating the berries and the salt on the road must mean it is time to go away and let my bike chain rust into uselessness.<br />
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The plan, though in places that is quite a strong word, is to: fly to the Falklands tomorrow, get on the ship, go to Rothera (Antarctic Peninsula, west side) via the South Orkneys (where we will spend Christmas dropping people off on uninhabited islands), stay at Rothera flying remote controlled submarines until early March, get back on the ship, go up to Punta Arenas in southern Chile, leave Punta and do a lap of the Scotia Sea, wave at the South Orkneys and South Georgia as we go past, get to the Falklands in late April, fly home, sleep.<br />
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Will post photos at irregular intervals during this process if they are either worth sharing or I feel I need to prove I'm still alive (and there is a working internet connection). For now though a suitably blowy and suitably snowy photo from April:<br />
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<br />Hughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04711862890216257381noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3878701692882907925.post-5848564007056104492013-02-11T09:29:00.000-08:002013-09-25T03:55:00.844-07:00HumpbacksSome photos of the Humpback whales in late January. Humpbacks were seen most days since these, including two breaching outside the office windows on my last day (when the camera was back in my romm unfortunately!)<br />
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Thought I ought to get round to a post about the work here. There are
two strands, firstly we brought two ocean gliders down with us on the
ship. In a break with tradition, we will take them both home again! The
gliders are autonomous underwater vehicles, capable of staying out for
up to three months. They communicate via iridium satellite so we can
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An ocean glider not in the ocean. Outside the Bonner lab to test satellite communications</div>
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They don't have a propeller, instead moving by changing their density. They do this by moving a piston in and out at the nose to either sink or float. The vertical motion is partially turned to horizontal motion by the wings and moving a large battery in front of the wings - forward to tip the nose down, back to bring the nose up. This process makes them extremely efficient (3 months battery life) but also very slow (1km/hr)<br />
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About to deploy a glider off Sea Rover, before the winch got in the way (photo: Paul Samways)<br />
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Glider in the water. We have deployed them on short missions close to base and also on longer trips away from the base.</div>
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Talking to the glider from a RIB to find out where it is before recovering it.<br />
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The other part of the work is checking the handover between Marine Assistants, who spend two summers and a winter on base collecting data from the bay and also diving to collect animals and deploy logging instruments. Mairi (above) is coming to the end of her stint. The final job is to bring live animals back to the UK in a transport aquarium on the ship.<br />
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This season is also the first of the Dutch collaboration so has seen a big increase in the amount of sampling in the bay. We've often had all three sampling boats out at once.<br />
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Hughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04711862890216257381noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3878701692882907925.post-12685085133191711612013-02-02T06:12:00.001-08:002015-02-19T02:29:11.319-08:00Rothera BuildingsA quick tour round the buildings at Rothera <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">New Bransfield House, source of food so the most important building</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Admirals, the main accomodation block on the left, Fuchs House (field store) on right.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Fuchs House, the source of tents, skis and manfood. Manfood is basically
dehydrated ration packs, the name is to distinguish it from dogfood,
dating back to pre-1994 when there were Huskies on base. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Giants House, the rest of the accommodation</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> Control tower for base and runway</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> Sewage treatment plant</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> Some of the vehicles parked up, with the Span behind, where all the rubbish is dealt with</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A Gator, the standard base get-around by the span. This season we also
have bikes to get around on or for exercise on the runway when it is
free.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> More base vehicles parked by Fuchs. The containers are freezers, which come in with food in and go out with ice cores in. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Building Services (the people who keep things working and habitable) office and garage behind.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> Generotor shed, in the process of having the generators replaced this season.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The chippy shed.This is the original building on base, with four people wintering in here.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> Dash 7 taking off. Behind is the Ramp, our access away from base to
areas for skiing (downhill and cross country), technical walking and a
skiway for planes with skis to land.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dash 7 landing. This plane gets us to/from Punta (Chile) and takes kit,
people and fuel to our blue ice runway to the south. Otherwise we use
Twin Otters with skis (and wheel so they also use this runway) to get
out into the field.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> Twin Otter coming in to land, in this case from the South Pole, via Sky
Blu for refueling. With the skis these can land anywhere without
crevasses so are used for putting science camps into deep field. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The hangar, with the newly arrived BAS twin otter and a transiting Borek
twin otter. The Borek otter removed its skis at Union Glacier so then
has to come here for a solid runway before heading off to Chile.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">South end of station, Bonner Lab is on the right, home to the marine
science and Gerritsz Lab is on the left, the new lab for the Dutch
scientists we now have along to join in the fun. Beyond is the boat shed
where we have five small boats for sampling and diving.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Gerritsz lab, housing the four Dutch science containers. The large
doors allow the containers to be removed and swapped with others to
allow different science in the future.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The boat shed, with Sea Rover, our new rigid work boat (with electric winch) in front. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Three of our four RIBs in the boat shed. Terra Nova and Stella have hand
winches for water sampling. Nimrod and Erebus are used for diving,
ferrying people to the islands and for other work such as
launching/recovering the gliders.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> Our sampling bay</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> For
a simple walk we can go round the point, which can take anything from
half an hour to over three hours, depending on the company, weather and
number of whales and penguins</td></tr>
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Up the snow/ice ramp from base there is a show crevasse that the field assistants (=glib term for very experienced mountaineers that look after us down here) kindly take us down every so often. This was my first trip down and despite it being an overcast day it was still spectacular down there. Some photos (some heavily processed):<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgM_RuUq4y8O7WAaGy2JCljx1ncs2dagnC3ZmDLlMudwDFgTJHDDL7SsSTod7piHKFueYyqlBv26HZwQ78enD6LLXz4Z9MmuOzMHiPQ0A-CW3PJCThdPKYsvrgKndWhG-NRpzMbQz0QYWSO/s1600/IMG_2685.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: black;"> </span></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-zr51PNp1dFnKwhh1CGLFTQmvdjiuVa_4sOD9X7arb5BEvMRBz8hNxEM9LscljTj14vhUmiVeZu8RpKQn8XmEr4El6bjzk9zPngoc6Qh9FXTqOZuyBk1fxGi9d8gAbszB15Ao2S6KJLD0/s1600/IMG_2689.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></div>
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The ramp is getting very damp due to the warm weather. This is a stream running across the ice, collecting all the water running down the ramp.<br />
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The melting is increased by the dust and grit kicked off the runway by planes landing.The dark grit absorbs heat and melts several centimetres down through the snow:</div>
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Blue-eyed Shags<br />
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South Polar Skuas. Photos taken during a survey of the breeding colony.<br />
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Wilson's Petrel<br />
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Leopard Seal<br />
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Antarctic Tern<br />
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The wedds are are an ever-present and ever-cute presence around the point and on icebergs (though they are more vulnerable to the Orcas on the latter). The Orcas have made sporadic appearances but no photos yet.<br />
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This was a rather sad sight, an adult (presumably the mum) was swimming round the dead pup (in the shadows top left) nudging it with its nose and flippers, trying to wake it up.<br />
<br />Hughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04711862890216257381noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3878701692882907925.post-63323532891740627512013-01-04T13:31:00.003-08:002013-01-04T14:33:08.249-08:00Penguins, RotheraSome photos of the Adelies around base. They are always fun to watch (including going past the office window on occasion). They seem curious, though it is mostly just because they are short sighted and attracted to anything walking around (or oil drums). Two waddled onto the pitch during our Christmas Day football game and another did a length of the runway during the New Year's Eve 10km (5.5 laps of the runway)<br />
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Adult around 'The Point' (a small area we can walk round, a very pleasant after dinner stroll)<br />
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Young bird around the point<br />
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Adelie on base, with the Bonner lab (right) and new Dutch lab (left) behind<br />
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Well, at least if two join in the football it will be fair (photo: Tim Moffat)<br />
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Helping walk the penguins off to safety (photo: Tim Moffat)<br />
<br />Hughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04711862890216257381noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3878701692882907925.post-73518286010115540522012-12-31T19:56:00.003-08:002012-12-31T19:56:56.378-08:00Elephant Seals, RotheraSome photos of the Ellies from around the base and the point. This is the first year they have regularly come onto the base but numbers have been building up on nearby Lagoon Island in recent years. They are smelly, noisy and get in the way but definitely add some fun to base. <br />
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<br />Hughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04711862890216257381noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3878701692882907925.post-69649632539957071202012-12-29T12:30:00.002-08:002012-12-29T12:30:20.574-08:00Vernadsky/Faraday base callThe trip down the Antarctic Peninsula included a stop at Vernadsky, a Ukranian base that used to be the UK's Faraday base. A stop is required to service the tide gauge, that dates back to the days of it being Faraday. Good weather and a not very tight schedule (we were half a day late for Rothera and had to make it a full day) meant we all got ashore. One of the guys coming down with us to help with the gliders, David White, was especially keen to get ashore as he wintered at Faraday in 83 and 84<br />
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David behind the famous bar, built by a disgruntled wintering carpenter who was supposed to be doing something else with his time (and wood). The Ukranians made us very welcome, with plenty of food and homemade vodka.<br />
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Vernadsky (formerly Faraday) base<br />
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Someof the Gentoo Penguins. There were none here in 83/84 but the population has increased rapidly as the sea ice extent has reduced along the Peninsula<br />
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The first load getting ferried back to the JCR.Hughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04711862890216257381noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3878701692882907925.post-21968567836456240542012-12-26T05:40:00.000-08:002012-12-26T05:40:04.050-08:00Drake Passage and Antarctic PeninsulaThe Drake Passage crossing was unusual on two counts. Firstly it was extremely calm, in stark contrast to its reputation as one of the most fearsome sea areas in the world. Actually [satellite data hat on] it isn't anywhere near the windiest bit of the Southern Ocean - that is the Indian Ocean sector - but to sail around the world you have to go through the Drake Passage whereas you can avoid the other areas, unless you want to go to Crozet (my PhD islands) or Kerguelen.<br />
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The other unusual aspect, for me, was not stopping. Unlike my normal research cruises where we stop frequently (we will rarely steam for more than a couple of hours at a time) we quickly dropped a couple of landers over the side at the north side of Drake Passage and then set off to the Peninsula. This, combined with a light tailwind (cross winds get the birds to ride the updraft along the ship), meant there wasn't much chance for photography, but there was a good series of Fin Whale sightings and a breaching Mesoplodon whale was photographed by one person, but I missed it.<br />
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The Peninsula was its usual calm and ridiculously scenic self. Photos don't really do it any justice, but here are some anyway:<br />
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Cape Petrel<br />
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Southern Fulmar<br />
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Smith Island, the first bit of the Peninsula we saw, due to our slightly unusual approach route<br />
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"Penguins on an iceberg!" was probably the theme of the trip<br />
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Elisabeth, a PhD student from Florida State University seeing her first snow ever. Quite a way to do it!<br />
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Gentoo Penguins, increasingly common along the Peninsula as the ice retreats<br />
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Entering Lemaire Channel<br />
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Quadcopter being "tested"Hughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04711862890216257381noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3878701692882907925.post-71638074711217585172012-12-20T14:57:00.000-08:002012-12-26T05:46:26.356-08:00Falklands<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Catching up on the trip so far (we are now almost at Rothera). We unexpectedly (well, it wasn't planned, but delays are no surprise) had a day free in the Falklands before sailing, while the ship was alongside at FIPASS. A walk out to Gypsy Cove and back via the Narrows was appreciated by everyone, especially the new guys who hadn't seen penguins before.<br />
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<br />Hughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04711862890216257381noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3878701692882907925.post-72561269795143074712012-12-10T10:10:00.003-08:002013-06-28T08:59:03.374-07:00South Georgia rat eradicationGood news recently that the rat eradication on South Georgia will continue. The plan involves spreading poison from a helicopter on very tightly controlled and checked paths to ensure there is poison everywhere. More poison will be spread by hand on cliffs and in caves and buildings, supported by small yachts. The first phase around King Edward Point has been successful and more small birds are already being seen in the area.<br />
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If this work isn't done soon the glaciers will retreat further leaving a beach in front of them that rats could get along. This means that larger areas would have to baited at once and the changeable weather on the island mean that windows for helicopter flying are often short.<br />
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More details <a href="http://www.sght.org/Habitat-Restoration" target="_blank">here</a> and more general details of this and other rat eradication projects <a href="http://www.acap.aq/latest-news/recent-progress-with-alien-mammal-eradications-at-four-southern-ocean-islands-will-help-conserve-albatrosses-and-petrels" target="_blank">here</a><br />
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Some photos of Grytviken whaling station, in the area of rat eradication, I didn't get round to posting in April when I was there.<br />
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It is being replaced by another <a href="http://noc.ac.uk/research-at-sea/ships/rrs-discovery-replacement/rrs-discovery-replacement-project" target="_blank">RRS Discovery</a>, extending the lineage to four ships, going back to Captain Scott's ship.<br />
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Discovery in Cape Town at the start of my first research cruise(s), two back-to-back cruises to the Crozet Islands, between November and January 2004/5<br />
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I didn't get round to this when I got back, so here are some photos from
the four days we had on Ascension Island (just south of the equator in
the middle of the Atlantic) at the end of April. The flight back from the Falklands stops on Ascension, hence the opportunity. See <a href="http://hughvenables.blogspot.co.uk/2009/10/ascension-on-way-home.html" target="_blank">this post</a> for my previous visit.<br />
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Early morning Green Turtle. The beach is a few minutes from the hotel and there are very few people there. There are visitors to the island for various reasons, but very few tourists.<br />
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Ascension Frigatebird. Endemic to the island. They patrol the beach at dawn looking for late hatching baby turtles.<br />
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The geology of the island is from relatively recent volcanism.<br />
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White-tailed Tropicbird. <br />
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The breeding seabirds are mostly confined to offshore stacks. Until 2001
there were feral cats on the island and there are still rats, though
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Green Mountain. 800m high and a cloud forest (now). When Darwin arrived on the Beagle towards the end of his famous voyage he recognised the potential to increase the vegetation (older islands in the Galapagos are more vegetated than the more recent ones). He asked a friend who ran Kew gardens to send various species with each supply ship until vegetation was established. This had the feedback effects of capturing cloud vapour and creating thicker soil that could hold more water from the occasional heavy rain. This increased the water supply on the island, which until then had been a limiting factor to habitation. See http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-11137903<br />
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Massive contrast to the low ground.<br />
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Fairy Tern<br />
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Rats are common in the well vegetated areas<br />
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Lowlands, with an old lava flow still clear<br />
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The colonisation continues, almost entirely by non-native species.<br />
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A tardy turtle just starting to go back to the sea<br />
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The way looks clear but is blocked by rocks exposed by the falling tide. In the end we had to steer it back to the sea. <br />
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By breeding synchronously and in large numbers they managed to keep breeding on the mainland despite the cats. They are doing better now the cats are gone. There are ongoing measures to control rats locally to the colonies, known as Wideawake Fairs after the local onomatopoeic name for Sooty Terns<br />
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Brown Noddies are now breeding amongst the Sooty Terns.Hughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04711862890216257381noreply@blogger.com0