| ABSTRACT
The Geophysical
Institute has long enjoyed a reputation for its success in
doing science in cold-weather environments. As part of that
continued success the Infrasound Group has been operating and
maintaining an array of microphones since February 2001 at
Windless Bight on the Ross Ice Shelf, about 30 km distant from
McMurdo Station. Each year the array is serviced by a team of
four UAF/GI staff and faculty, with the help of McMurdo's support
staff and some other contract personnel. The sensors must be dug
out from a year's accumulated snow cover and calibrated on the
ice. Among other tasks, a non-trivially large power supply must
be serviced and moved. In this presentation two first-time
participants in that service mission will share their impressions,
both in words and photographs.
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