Palmer Links

Palmer Station and the R/V Hero from the air, taken late in the 1968-69 season after the
exterior skin of GWR has been installed. (US Navy photo by Bill Curtsinger, from the
Antarctic Journal, July/August 1969. Presumably he took it from the Edisto's helicopter)

At the top, several current blogs from 2009...

travelinwiththerev: happens to be Craig Bell, one of the UT types I met when I first got to Pole in February 2008. He left at the end of the summer, but worked in Denver, and is now at Palmer for the first part of the winter.
vagabumming: is really Will Brubaker, a friend and good guy who was one of my fellow 2008 Pole winterovers. Good stuff and photos!
Neal Scheibe: was the science tech at Pole for 2006 and 2007...for 2008 and 2009 he moved to the warmer side of the continent but his style (from his Pole blog) remains.
Amber Bates: was the winter 2008 lab tech, she stayed around until April 2009. She's got some excellent photos of the retreating glaciers...plus documentation of her mother's visit to Palmer Station on a cruise ship.
Carla Appel: was the winter IT systems administrator, she showed up at the beginning of April for a 7-month winter contract--fresh after a summer at Pole. Lots of pictures. She left in September...lots more pics of her South American travels!
Paul Queior: was the 2008 network engineer, whatever that is. One thing he covers is the cruise ship Ushuaia call at Palmer in December 2008 not long before that vessel ran aground.
Seren Thompson: was around for the 2007-08 summer. Several great things to recommend on her blog--a great collection of aerial photographs taken by aircraft from the HMS Endurance...and a visit to one of those little known field sites that I too did get to see once--Copacabana. Oh, the older portion of her blog is here.
UAB in Antarctica 2007: This is the new site from their 2007 visit. Great stuff...with archives from previous ventures as well. Follow along!
UAB in Antarctica 2004: The older Amsler/Mclintock site, with excellent diaries and photos of their 2004 diving research study at Palmer. Maggie's 2 March 2004 diary entry on the Arthur Harbor glacier calving to create what would later be named Amsler Island is of particular interest.
Glenn Grant: has worked as a science tech at McMurdo for a number of years, and he spent the last couple of summers at Palmer. This is a very eclectic web site with some fine writing as well as photos.
Seth White: wintered at McM in 2003 and returned to visit ALL the stations in 2003-04. This is the index to his extremely prolific Palmer pages...lots of BIG pictures and detailed whimsical descriptions...not only from the Antarctic but also from recent trips to Summit and Thule.
WBUR Antarctica: Boston Public Radio reporter visited Palmer in the 2002-03 summer. This site features many photo galleries, journal entries, and an excellent narrated virtual tour.
HERO!: My Hero pages are here.
The Bosun's Watch!: is a UK site devoted to commercial fishing trawlers, but this page on the Hero is based on her trawling heritage. Excellent pictures of Hero in the Antarctic (and aground in Umpqua harbor...)!
Allen Cull: wintered in 1979, and in addition to his photo collection he's amassed the entire year's sitreps as well as the PSBWFPWL (well, see the web site!) Great historical stuff! (this web site is not always active)
Recent Palmer science sitreps since 1990 and other stuff are on this bibliography section of the LTER site.: This site is hard to navigate; ALL the science sitreps are available here, they are amazingly detailed...worthwhile! Here is the new LTER home page.
Dave Gallas: a friend who wintered at Palmer in 1989...more recently (2005-07 he's been working in Baghdad, but he's been publishing some of his old diaries. Of special interest is his detailed on-the-spot account of the Bahia Paraiso debacle.
Marianne Kaput: a teacher from Troy, Ohio, was a member of this 2005-06 Miami of Ohio team that studied the Peninsula to study the largest entirely terrestrial animal in the Antarctic--the wingless midge (!) Team diaries from their 3 trips in 2004-05, 2005-06, and 2007, including hers can be found here.
Cara Sucher: lab operations supervisor, put together this excellent photography site, including the archive of the summer 2005-06 "pictures of the day." She's also got an excellent Palmer Station links page of recent folks' sites and blogs.
2007-08 USAP Science Summary: for Palmer Station, from the RPSC web site, with links to previous years. And here is their marine science home page.
R/V Polar Duke farewell tribute: with detailed history, sea stories, photos and more.
Dave Steward: has prepared this web site based on the July 2005 reunion of the 1970 winter crew, held in Stonington, RI at Nathanial B. Palmer's house.
Peter Lund: was the 1997 w/o network admin; this site includes a brief virtual tour, photos, and his journal entries in the "archives" section...as well as stuff from McMurdo in 1998
John Lohr: was the radio officer on Hero from 1974-78; this is his page (with many pictures) describing his job and how he got it. He also has a slide show and commentary on Hero and a voyage to South Georgia
The Stanford VLF group has been listening to whistlers from Clean Air since 1978.: The folks who were down in 1998, 1999 and 2000 have some good diaries and photos here.
Boating maps...: That clickable map from Marc Pomeroy, and the large annotated boating map from the LTER folks.
A new look (August 2007) at Captain Nathaniel B. Palmer's historic house: in Stonington, Connecticut.