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The Antarctic Sun, January 14, 2007 January 14, 2007 By Peter Rejcek Sun staff MOUNT EREBUS is famous for its per- sistent but low-level activity as the world’s southernmost active volcano. But last year it threw one of its biggest recorded tantrums during its last 165 years. For the second half of 2005, Erebus erupt- ed as much as six times a day, throwing what volcanologists call “bombs,” hot rocks, out of the crater and onto the sides of the 3,794- meter-high volcano. See EREBUS on page 7 Clive Oppenheimer / Special to The Antarctic Sun Quote of Reaching Out ANDRILL completes the Week fi rst core recovery Scientists go online “They should By Peter Rejcek ANDRILL co-chief sci- put a story to educate public Sun staff entist Ross Powell a day The field season may after the drilling opera- about us in By Steve Martaindale be over for the ANtarctic tion ended on Dec. 26. the paper.” Sun staff geological DRILLing The long mosaic The Web site of veteran Antarctic research- program, but the work is of glacial rock types, – Burger bar cook er Sam Bowser sums it up well: only really beginning for diatomite, volcanic impressed with the “Science is useless unless it’s shared, and the scores of ANDRILL ash, siltstone and mud- speed at which his most kids are born scientists. (What do you scientists who will study stone will tell scientists crew turned out grub expect from a species that’s asking ‘Why?’ the sediment core that much about the vari- on a recent night. by the time they turn 3?) We believe in get- was extracted from under ability of Antarctica’s ting people involved with science, no matter the Ross Ice Shelf over paleoclimate and how Inside their age or experience level” (bowserlab. the last two months. the continent’s ice org). “There’s quite a wide sheets, ice shelves and Aerobic delivery From small-scaled and personal methods, range of information glaciers behaved over Page 3 such as Bowser’s offer to speak to school that we’ll be able to put the last 5 to 10 mil- See EDUCATIONAL on page 10 together into a detailed lion years in response to Getting to the top and unique story,” said See ANDRILL on page 9 Page 12 AntarcticSun.usap.gov 2 • The Antarctic Sun January 14, 2007 Cold, hard facts Icebreaker Polar Sea Commissioned: 1978 Homeport: Seattle Overall length: 399 feet Extreme breadth: 83 feet, 6 inches Full load draft: 31 feet, 10 inches Photos by Steven Profaizer / The Antarctic Sun Full load displacement: 13,190 tons Breaking ice Top of mast above waterline: 138 feet, 2 inches Icebreakers have opened the 2007 shipping channel and Maximum sustained water speed: gained access to McMurdo 17 knots Station. At right, the Swedish icebreaker Oden sits in the Available berthing: 180 foreground as the U.S. Coast Guard’s Polar Sea moves Number of internal laboratories: 5 through the sea ice channel. In the photo above, a Polar Sea Potential number of additional crew member conducts a tour portable laboratories on deck: 7 for McMurdo residents. Crew members of both ships also Number of Coast Guard Unit received opportunities to visit Commendations and Meritorious the station. Unit Commendations: 3 of each Source: www.uscg.mil Level 1 Comix Matt Davidson The Antarctic Sun is funded by the National Science Foundation as part of the United States Antarctic Program (OPP-000373). Its primary audience is U.S. Antarctic Program par- ticipants, their families, and their friends. NSF reviews and approves material before publication, but opin- ions and conclusions expressed in The Sun are not necessarily those of the Foundation. Use: Reproduction is encouraged with acknowledgment of source and author. Senior Editor: Peter Rejcek Editors: Steven Profaizer, Steve Martaindale Copy Editors: Ben Bachelder, Rob Jones, Traci Macnamara, Cori Manka, Erin Popelka, Travis Senor, Emily Stone Publisher: Valerie Carroll, Communications manager, RPSC Contributions are welcome. Contact The Sun at [email protected]. In McMurdo, visit our office in Building 155 or dial 2407. Web address: AntarcticSun.usap.gov Subscribe: Click on the link on the right side of the homepage and follow the directions. January 14, 2007 The Antarctic Sun • 3 Couriers keep the mail moving By Steven Profaizer Sun staff Working as a courier at McMurdo Station transforms all of town into a circuit workout. Get out of the truck. Walk into the build- ing. Climb up the stairs. Drop the envelope. Climb down the stairs. Walk out of the building. Get into the truck. Drive to the next building. Repeat. “We’re basically moving mail from place to place and getting a lot of exercise in between,” said LaVonne Hynes Weber, who has spent her last three seasons as a courier and her first season as a dining attendant. “That’s one of the fun parts of the job.” She said another highlight of her experi- ence is working alongside the other courier – Lorraine Weber, her roommate and sister. “LaVonne’s my best friend as well as my sister,” said Lorraine, who is in her first season on the Ice. “We have a lot of fun together, and we complement each other well.” The two women rotate weekly between the task of shuffling packages among work centers and the task of distributing mail in the station’s mail room. The couriers Photos by Steven Profaizer / The Antarctic Sun make the circuit LaVonne Hynes Weber, left, and her sister Lorraine Weber work as McMurdo’s couriers. They of stairs climbs rotate weekly between running local mail around town and distributing mail in the mail room. and brisk walks several people on station as they can be regularly perfect job,” she said. times each day, seen walking the halls of every building. Even on their weeks as courier, the checking drop Both of the couriers agree that giving out women serve a vital role in assisting the boxes for new items that need to be moved package mail is one of the most enjoyable other person in the mail room. The sister around town. parts of their job. On a continent that is far on courier duty is responsible for covering “It’s nice being helpful to the com- away from everyone’s home, U.S. Antarctic the mail room while the other goes to lunch munity. It’s time out of their day that they Program participants regularly search the and helps to alphabetize incoming mail and are able to do what they need to be doing posted list of package mail hoping for a box packages. Without assistance, one person instead of running all over town,” LaVonne from friends and family. could never keep the mail room open to the said. “Parts, paperwork, pagers – we’re the “People come into the mail room smil- community all day, which LaVonne said movement of it all.” ing and leave smiling,” Lorraine said. “We is important with the multitude of work McMurdo offices generate as much have a service that makes people smile.” schedules. paperwork as any organization, but they are LaVonne added that one of the most Despite the mail room support role, the sprawled out like a town instead of gathered enjoyable parts of walking around station weekly courier’s primary duty is to make together in a centralized location, which as courier is getting to tell people they laps on the stationwide circuit, answering means some paperwork needs to be moved have packages as she passes by them. But pages for immediate pick-ups, gathering more than a mile on its path to completion. keeping people’s names, faces and pack- mail and redistributing it with each tour of LaVonne said the forms organizing each ages straight with a large population like McMurdo. person’s departure from the continent have McMurdo can be a challenge. “It feels good to see town and catch up to make three courier stops before they gain “Most of the time I get it right, but with people all around station,” LaVonne the necessary signatures and arrive at the sometimes I’m a little off,” said LaVonne. said. right location. With almost 1,000 people “You get to know people’s names because One of the sisters’ nicest parts of a day leaving at the end of each summer season, of the time in the mail room. And after I spent as courier is the two-mile drive to there’s plenty of work to be done this time leave the Ice, they’re still swirling about in New Zealand’s Scott Base that they nor- of year. my mind.” mally make once in the afternoon. Rivaling the leg workout the courier job The alternate weeks in the mail room “It’s wonderful, and you get a view of provides is the exercise it gives facial mus- are not as aerobic as delivering packages Mount Erebus. It kind of refreshes the spirit cles from imparting a smile and a greeting around all day, but LaVonne said it’s a nice just seeing that mountain,” LaVonne said. toward almost everyone the couriers pass. breather before the next go around. “After four seasons, I’m still in awe of this The sisters are two of the most recognizable “The two jobs together just make the place.” 4 • The Antarctic Sun January 14, 2007 UnderstandingA science team plans to use the never-setting summer sun to examine our sun its atmosphere, dynamics and structure. Courtesy of NASA By Steven Profaizer Sun staff Imagine walking away from a fire and getting hotter with each of the first few steps.
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