Because ship technology is AMAZING

A mid-transit group checkin

📣 We have turned south 📣

To boldly go where most scientists are too scared to go…

We say “ship tour” but really mean “cabin tour + one outdoor part”

Yes, this post contains a video of dolphins 🙄🙄🙄

No US expedition has been to East Antarctica in 22 years!

The only thing we can do is lie down and wait it out.

Yay you left the country! But oh no, now you have four time changes in one week :(

It was a little like ZeroDarkThirty night ops…we had 3 hours’ notice to pack our bags!

The neverending hotel isolation…

Mummified seal seen in the dry valleys on the Antarctic continent

My team will be discovering new worm species (and investigating their microbiomes)

Our expedition has 31 scientists across 5 teams

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