The team is happy to be back in Kanger!

The team has all made it back to Kanger and is spending the next few days sorting equipment, dealing with their cores, and getting ready to come home.  The Iceland volcanic eruption has started to wreak havoc on the airspace between Greenland and Europe.  The team is crossing their fingers that their flight between Kanger and NY this Thursday won't be impacted.  We're all crossing our fingers too!!!

300 meters done... now time to wait

The team finished the 300 meter GLISN core.  Unfortunately, they found out they they will not have a Herc flight today (Thursday), maybe they will have one on Friday, but more than likely they will fly out on Saturday.  They are all still doing well, but looking forward to getting back to Kanger.  A week from today they will fly from Kanger to NY.

Helping Drill...

The team is still in Raven helping drill the GLISN core - Evan reports they had drilled 220 meters out of the 300 meter total on Saturday.  The team is scheduled to be picked up by Herc this Thursday the 19th to fly back to Kanger.  Evan reports that all are in good spirits, but looking forward to their Thursday Herc flight.

They've made it back to Raven!

Good news on all fronts.  The team has made it back to Raven and all the cores have been picked up and are in the freezer in Kanger.  Evan and Clem drove 13 hours yesterday pulling the radar - needless to say it was a long day and they were very happy to end their day in a warm hut.  Evan said it was cold driving conditions, but a smooth ride.  The next Herc arriving to Raven is 9 days away, so the team has lots of time  to decompress from the traverse...  Great job ACT11 team on a traverse well done!!!!

ACT11-C is done!

The team has finished ACT11-C and will be headed to back to Raven tomorrow, which means all their cores are done (minus the core they are helping out with at Raven)!!!  They finished drilling ACT11-C on Friday and were grounded today because of wind. All are in good spirits and are happy to be heading towards home... slowly.

Team makes it to ACT11-B!

After a few very interesting days around ACT11-A, the team has made it back to ACT11-B!  The team has been able to make lots of radar measurements around ACT11-A, which is the lowest ice core ever drilled on the Greenland ice sheet!  They report the possibility of high winds tomorrow, which might delay getting started on ACT11-B.  Unfortunately, the wind will also continue to build up those pesky sastrugi that make driving and making radar measurements difficult.

News from ACT11-A

Instead of rewording this, please see the report from the field at: http://bprc.osu.edu/wiki/1_May%2C_2011