Our drilling crew is working hard to get things ready for the traverse to Minna Bluff. They removed tarps from the modules, fired up the generators, unpacked the ‘do-not-freeze’ items for re-installation, resupplying the shop, cut some new rig mats, laid in some new...
It’s been a long year since we were last on the ice with RAID. Our first field trials ended in January of this year, when we buttoned up for the coming austral winter. All of the modules sat quietly on snow berms outside of McMurdo Station while the RAID team members...
contributed by Jeff Severinghaus It is December 26th and a snowstorm has been piling up drifts around RAID camp for several days. Yesterday we celebrated Christmas with a dinner prepared by the amazingly talented Beth, Shannon, and Jonah. Despite being very far from...
A lot has happened over the past week! RAID is fortunate to be located in a fairly protected area rimmed by the Minna Bluff ridgeline, which seems to keep low clouds and ground fog – common in the McMurdo area – at bay. Last Friday the last three members of our RAID...
We’re really making solid progress out at the RAID camp. The carpenters finished up their work to raise the camp structures, they have a water system up and running, and the drillers have been experimenting already with different approaches to augering through the...
