My Trip to Antarctica Dec. 2002

Click HERE for my text "Story"

UTMB, Raytheon Polar Services, National Science Foundation made my trip possible.

Christchruch NZ, Cathedral
The Avon River
Clothing Issue Station, NZ Airport
NZ KIWI's loading for McMurdo
The C-130 Flight was.......fun.
Ivan the Terra Bus at the Ice Runway, McMurdo Station

The National Science Foundation Antarctica

McMurdo Station looking across the Ross Ice Shelf
McMurdo the Town
Rightmost view of McMurdo
Observation Hill
Mt. Erebus 12,248' Volcano
McMurdo Dining Hall
Taxi Service
Ice Research Station #6
Antarctic Cod one of 15 that day
McMurdo General Hospital
Typical Clinic Room
Local Coastal Residents
Scott's Hut at McMurdo Sound
Blubber Stove with meat left from early 1900's
Scott's Hut Supplies
US Air Force C-130 Ready for our flight from McMurdo to South Pole Station
The Dome at theSouth Pole
Tunnel Entry
Tunnel Covered in Ice
The Hospital is inside of this walk-in cooler
2 Miles from the station is this antenna. It is summer -37 F wind chill is -70 F
Dining hall at South Pole Station
Geographic South Pole...this is where all of the lines come together
2" of Powder Snow and 10,000 feet of ice below...a moment I will treasure forever
The New South Pole Station
My thanks to Dr. Ron Shemenski, RPSC; Dr. Ben Raimer, UTMB; Jeanette Heartshorn, Director, Telehealth Center UTMB and to Steven Viegas, M.D. who was my traveling partner and to all of those who touched my life during our stay on "The ICE".
True Texans at Heart
  True to our work at The University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB)
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