Dale Andersen's Field Reports

Astrobiologist Dale Andersen Antarctic Status Report 22 December 2021: Return To Novo Station

By Keith Cowing
December 22, 2021
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Astrobiologist Dale Andersen Antarctic Status Report 22 December 2021: Return To Novo Station
Traverse From Lake Untersee To Novo Station <a href="https://s3.amazonaws.com/images.spaceref.com/news/2021/oodaletrip.l.jpg">Larger image</a>
Dale Andersen

Just got this from Dale: “The IL-76 arrived yesterday in preparation for an airdrop of fuel at Halley station. Hopefully that will take place tomorrow and we will return to CPT [Cape Town, South Africa] Fri. It is snowing here (again) this morning, but we will complete packing up today and will be ready to depart Antarctica as soon as the aircraft returns to CPT.”

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Trip details (track taken is the blue dots with orange outlines).

Started Dec 18, 2021 6:36 AM
Trip Time 5:54:00
Dist. Traveled 117.1 km
Average Speed 19.85 km/h
Max. Speed 36.47 km/h
Max. Elevation 845.61 m

Reports for this field season and several previous seasons prior to the hiatus due to the global pandemic

Dale Andersen’s Field Reports: December 2021
Dale Andersen’s Field Reports: November 2021
Dale Andersen’s Field Reports: October 2021
Dale Andersen’s Field Reports: December 2019
Dale Andersen’s Field Reports: November 2019
Dale Andersen’s Field Reports: October 2019
Dale Andersen’s Field Reports: January 2018
Dale Andersen’s Field Reports: February 2018
Dale Andersen’s Field Reports: December 2017
Dale Andersen’s Field Reports: November 2017

and

The McMurdo Dry Valleys Long-Term Research Project Life in Extreme Environments; An Antarctic Field Journal by Dale Andersen

Keith Cowing: These updates in 1996 and 1997 were done directly by Dale Andersen while in Antarctica to a webserver in my condo in Reston, Virginia. As best we can tell this was one of the earliest – if not the first – website to be maintained from Antarctica.

Astrobiology

Explorers Club Fellow, ex-NASA Space Station Payload manager/space biologist, Away Teams, Journalist, Lapsed climber, Synaesthete, Na’Vi-Jedi-Freman-Buddhist-mix, ASL, Devon Island and Everest Base Camp veteran, (he/him) 🖖🏻