Today was all about research. We had a lecture in the morning about Antarctic Meteorology and Climatology from Dr. Mark Denny, and had the rest of the day, until 8:00 pm, when we had our evening lecture/talks session, to make progress on our research. The work the Biomechanics module is doing is basically trying to figure out how anchor ice (as the name suggests, this is ice that forms on the bottom of rivers, the ocean down here, etc.) interacts with different biological structures (urchin spines, sea anemone tentacles, sponges, algae. etc.). It was super fun to have a day to play in the lab and built neat contraptions to try to invent a way to study this stuff. Here is a recent picture Idan and I took of anchor ice around a sea urchin spine in the contraption we built,
and here is just a picture of some anchor ice forming in our system.
We had our LAST training talk tonight, but it was not so bad because it was what we had to do to get cleared for the outdoor recreation opportunities here...like climbing Castle Rock (pictured in one of the previous posts). Then we heard from three TAs about their research, went for a beverage at the Coffee House to remind ourselves that it actually was night time (and bed time), then once again, walked out into the shining sunlight and headed off to dreamland.
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