Jonathan Thom, 1 January 2002
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first few days of life in Antarctica involve a lot of paperwork, meetings
and training. For instance, yesterday we had a in brief where we tell the
contractors and NSF representative in Antarctica what we want to accomplish
well we are here. Then in the afternoon we attended a field safety refresher
course, this course is meant to teach you some rudimentary skills that will
allow you to survive in the Antarctic if you are involved in an accident.
Today we continued with training for waste management and driving equipment
(trucks and snowmobiles) in Antarctica. Waste management in Antarctica is
a little more complicated than in the states. All solid waste in Antarctica
is retrograded to the US. Therefore it is very important that the waste
be sorted so that it can be efficiently recycled and disposed. I think that
completes our bureaucratic tasks before you can get some work done. The
rest of the afternoon involved accumulating all of our equipment into our
lab space, unpacking our cargo, and beginning to get the parts ready for
our station visits.
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