Palmer Station
Palmer Station as presented in the station's 2008 midwinter greeting (the full panoramic view and the greeting).
August 2008...yes, I'm back at Pole for the winter but it is time I update this site with more news from the warm side of the continent...some fresh links...a fresh Hero sighting...
and word of that interesting little event unfolding somewhere up north of here...the Antarctic contract rebidding adventure...
25 January 2007...have to announce the death of long-time Antarctican and 1976 manager Larry Miyoda (obituary).
Don't miss Dave Gallas' incredible blow-by-blow eyewitness account of the 1989 Bahia episode!
The late Richie Skane has been in the news...before Midwinters Day 2006, veteran science tech Glenn Grant gathered documentation to officially name a significant Antarctic feature (well, significant to us Palmer folks at least) named after Richie. Follow the progress here.
19 April 2006--not a good week for Palmer Station and the LMG...veteran marine tech Joshua Spillane disappeared, apparently overboard, on 17 January on transit north to PA, and has been declared dead. Here is more information from RPSC/USAP and a NSF press statement.
The 1999 and 2000 winters saw some major renovations of both the biolab main floor and GWR, including a new exterior back stairway on GWR, moving medical and other offices from Biolab to GWR, as well as moving the fire tank outside, to make more room inside Biolab for beakers or whatever. And the 2002 winter saw the massive complete reconstruction of the ground floor of Biolab, including all new labs, HVAC system and boiler, and consolidation (and firewalls/safety upgrades) of the mechanical spaces to make a science instrument lab in the old mechanical room.
What is going on at Palmer nowadays? After the 2005 winter construction of T6, things have been a bit quieter. The station science sitreps are published here by the LTER people, nowadays with a new look (in MS Word, with photos); Woods Hole set up a webcam as part of their survey for their proposed/cancelled remote underwater observatory, and several years ago Glenn Grant documented the January 2004 collapse of the glacier behind OP between Arthur Harbor and Loudwater Cove, turning the area into Norsel Island, perhaps, but in 2007 it was named Amsler Island.
[these pages are still under construction and will probably be that way for awhile...sorry. Please stay behind the barricade and keep your safety glasses on!]
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