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On my trips to Antarctica I sent back a journal, digital pictures and video clips to record my impressions. I had read about the heroic early explorers, and had looked at plenty of glossy picture books: but what I wanted to record were my on-the-spot impressions, not only of the predictable awe-insiring nature of Antarctica but also what it felt like as a person being processed through a quasi-military system. My journal entries were written on the spot, sent by e-mail and not edited afterwards. Some of it now looks naive, some of my initial impressions were clearly incomplete, but this is what it felt like. I welcome your comments - .
I traveled to the South Pole for the first time in 1997 to install pollution
measuring instruments ("Aethalometers") for a National Science Foundation
project. Power and heat at Antarctic research stations are produced by
diesel generators and oil-fired boilers: the environmental impact of this
smoke on the very fragile Antarctic ecosystems had never been assessed.
In 1998, I returned again for further studies of the exposure of cargo
operators to aircraft exhaust fumes. In 1999, I returned to continue studies
of the levels of pollution that accumulate inside the tightly-sealed buildings.
On the second and third trips, I also took a video camera and prepared
some short MPEG-format video clips which are linked to the pages.
My Electronic Journal
For all of the images, we made a thumbnail (small) image
for the text page. You can click on them to view the full-size picture
if you wish. This is to help those who may have slow modem connections.
If you still experience unacceptable access delays, please -- I will prepare some text-only pages (with links to the
images).
The images sent back from Antarctica by Tony were captured
using the .
All of the movie clips were captured with the
There is lots of information about Antarctica on the Web, including
similar journals of other scientists who have worked there.
Click
for a complete list of Web links which we have come across.
Featured sites of interest:
Here are some other interesting ones:
I really want to thank for all his work on this Web project last year. He set up these
pages and was my contact for receiving transmitted material from Antarctica
and posting it. Garry Rose and Jeff Blair have now taken over the job and
are apart of the engineering group at the : we make robotics and automation for biotechnology
research projects. . We have a
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- we like our work and we encourage all younger people to study science,
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The images sent back from Antarctica by Tony were captured using the .
The movie (mpeg) clips were captured using the .
Prepared by and ; last updated 9 February, 1999