Longitude: -66.0856
My name is Nadine Orejola. I am currently an undergrad
student at MSU that was granted the opportunity to participate in LARISSA
(Larsen Ice Shelf System Antacrtica) Program on a cruise to the Antarctic
Peninsula. I’m here with Brendan Reilly,
an MSU geoscience graduate student, and we will be focusing on Magnetic
Susceptibility of sediment cores retrieved from sites located around the
Antarctic Peninsula.
We are on our way to Antarctica after 3 days of delay in
Punta Arenas, Chile. After yesterday’s departure at 1600 hrs, we moved through
the storm driven rocky waters of the Strait of Magellan and are headed south in
the Southern Atlantic, hugging the coastline of Tierra del Fuego. We plan to
reach the Drake Passage by 2100hrs. We are anticipating our arrival at the first
Whale Bone recovery site on Thursday. After that we hope sea ice conditions are
favorable and we can start recovering sediment cores from under the locations
of the former Larsen A and B ice shelves.
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Do have a wonderful expedition, and bring back all the science goodies.
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