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Hugh Powell typing on laptop in a snow cave.

Hugh Powell typing on laptop in a snow cave.
Hugh Powell typing on laptop in a snow cave.
Hugh Powell typing on laptop in a snow cave.
Hugh Powell typing on laptop in a snow cave.
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Linder, Christopher L.
Hugh Powell typing on laptop in a snow cave.
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11/27/2007
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And that brings us back to the snow cave. Photographer Chris Linder is outside setting up the satellite phone to send you this report; I can hear the cold, dry snow squeaking as he stamps around trying to keep his toes warm. Check in tomorrow to find out how we slept, and what else we learned in Day 2 of Happy Camper School.
Caption from Oceanus magazine, Vol. 46, No. 1, Pg. 2:
ABOUT THE WRITER: Hugh Powell is a freelance science writer based on the West Coast. He studied forest fires, insects, and woodpeckers for his master's degree, edited a journal of ornithology, and then completed the science writing program at the University of California, Santa Cruz. In July 2005, Powell holed up in Woods Hole, writing for Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) Web sites and Oceanus magazine. In winter 2007, he filed daily dispatches (above) from Ross Island, Antarctica, on Expedition 3 of the WHOI Polar Discovery Web site. He blogs about science, the ocean, and birding at
surf.bird.scribble and the Gist.
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In winter 2007, Hugh Powell, a freelance science writer, filed daily dispatches from Ross Island, Antarctica, on Expedition 3 of WHOI's Live from the Poles. Expedition members camped out in tents, with three teams of scientists studying two very different subjects: First, they looked at the biology of the frigid, bountiful Ross Sea through the eyes of Adelie penguins. Then they tackled the geology of 300,000-year-old lava flows high on Mount Morning, a dormant volcano in the towering Royal Society Mountains. They worked round the clock thanks to the 24 hours of daylight and enjoyed temperatures that might even get above freezing.
Photo by Chris Linder
© Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
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