| We
conducted a field test of the radar system beginning in late October through
mid-December, 2001. The field team, pictured at right, consisted mostly
of UTIG folks, plus a couple of hired guns. The picture was taken at the
OND camp, where several of us were also working on another UTIG project.
We set up the radar in McMurdo and conducted five flights from there. Our
survey targets included ice and permafrost covered regions of the Dry Valleys,
the Ross Ice Shelf. While we were there we also had an opportunity to survey
iceberg B15a that, at the time, was pinned against Ross Island. In mid November
we all went up to the OND camp and did another five flight that targeted
ice stream C and D, crossed the Ross Sea/Amundsen Sea ice divide at the
WAISCORES drilling site as well as the deepest reported location of the
Byrd Subglacial Basin. We also did an overnight excursion up to South Pole
Station to survey the bright flat region under the station that some speculate
may be a subglacial lake. |
