Antarctic Team To Install Seismographs, Where 'No Man -- Or Woman -- Has Gone Before'
A team of seismologists from Washington University in St. Louis, like members of the starship Enterprise, will "boldly go where no man has gone before" after Thanksgiving this year.
The team, led by Douglas A. Wiens, Ph.D., Washington University Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences in Arts & Sciences, will go to remote regions of Antarctica to place seismographs in both east and west Antarctica, to learn about the earth beneath the ice, and glean information about glaciers, mountains and ice streams. The location of their field camp, called AGAP-South, has never been visited by humans before, and the entire region of Antarctica has only been traversed by a Russian team 50 years ago and by a Chinese team last year.
Up until this November, no woman has been in these parts of Antarctica either, but Wiens' graduate student, Moira Pyle, will hold the distinction of being the first woman to set foot there.
Wiens and the group will install 10 seismographs each in the east and west parts of Antarctica, and an additional 20 instruments next year. Members of the group will spend between one to two months in Antarctica.
Living conditions in Antarctica for researchers are primitive and brutal. Though it will be summer in Antarctica when the Wiens team works there in December and January, temperatures will max out at -30 Fahrenheit
A team of seismologists from Washington University in St. Louis, like members of the starship Enterprise, will "boldly go where no man has gone before" after Thanksgiving this year.
The team, led by Douglas A. Wiens, Ph.D., Washington University Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences in Arts & Sciences, will go to remote regions of Antarctica to place seismographs in both east and west Antarctica, to learn about the earth beneath the ice, and glean information about glaciers, mountains and ice streams. The location of their field camp, called AGAP-South, has never been visited by humans before, and the entire region of Antarctica has only been traversed by a Russian team 50 years ago and by a Chinese team last year.
Up until this November, no woman has been in these parts of Antarctica either, but Wiens' graduate student, Moira Pyle, will hold the distinction of being the first woman to set foot there.
Wiens and the group will install 10 seismographs each in the east and west parts of Antarctica, and an additional 20 instruments next year. Members of the group will spend between one to two months in Antarctica.
Living conditions in Antarctica for researchers are primitive and brutal. Though it will be summer in Antarctica when the Wiens team works there in December and January, temperatures will max out at -30 Fahrenheit
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