Photo Friday: A trip to Emperor Penguin Colony

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As it’s been a while since my last Photo Friday article, I’ve got a little gem of a Photo Friday for all of you this week. We went to see the nearby Emperor Penguins Colony last Wednesday, and this is … Continue reading

The new record for low temperature at Halley

The last week was particularly cold in comparison to all my time here at Halley. We had a few days when the outside air temperature, without factoring in the wind chill, would drop to below -50°C (where below means in the direction of -60°C). Early this morning it seems we’ve seen the lowest temperature since the Met records started at Halley, at -55.4°C (exceeding the previous record low of -55.3°C by 0.1°C). This still needs to be confirmed, but we’re claiming the new record anyway! Continue reading

A year with British Antarctic Survey

Hi All,

I realise I’ve pretty much neglected this blog for the last month, almost to the day! And the longer I left it, the more of an issue it became to start posting again. I also realised that July marks a full year since I’ve started working for British Antarctic Survey in Cambridge and I thought it’s a good opportunity to start blogging again. Continue reading

Back to School

I know I haven’t posted anything here in over a week. Things are back to normal after a week of Midwinter celebrations at Halley. I also have to confess, I’ve used the “Back to School” expression as a title for this article as I found it very fitting, but it was Al who came up with the idea. Thanks Al, even though you don’t (yet) know about that, I’ve stolen your idea! Continue reading