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 2011 and recent past stuff...

Paula Dell: is a science teacher from Chicago who visited Palmer in April-June 2011 as a part of the PolarTREC program. She was a member of a project studying the biology of Antarctic fishes...the principal investigators of which are Kristin O'Brien and the late Bruce Sidell. Paula has an extensive blog with photos covering the science activities on station and aboard the L.M. Gould, as well as glimpses of other science projects and station life.
Brian Nelson: has wintered at McMurdo and spent a couple of summers at Palmer Station since then...a great blog with pictures of activities and wildlife of various types.
Pat Betteley: is an Ohio educator who joined the Miami University (Ohio) 2010-11 project studying flies. Yes...the wingless fly belgica antarctica that can be found on the Antarctic Peninsula. She put together this interesting blog. They headed north on the LMG on 4 February.
Ian Robbins: spent time at Palmer Station in January/February 2011 with the Cal Poly San Luis Obispo marine science group...they operated "Autonomous Underwater Vehicles" (AUV) known as REMUS (Remote Environmental Monitoring Unit).
Fen Montaigne: the author of the 2010 book Fraser's Penguins, blogs occasionally here.
Speaking of penguins...The Ocean Bytes blog: by folks at the University of Delaware, has had several excellent posts recently...videos of the penguin research...coverage of the AUV mentioned above, and video documentation of one of the new crevasses that are restricting glacier access.
Keith Reimink: was the 2010 w/o cook...one of several 2009 (or earlier) Polies to venture to the Peninsula side of the continent. Lots of pictures of the trip, the station, food...
Neal Scheibe: was the science tech at Pole for 2006 and 2007...for 2008, 2009, 2011 and 2011 (now his sixth Antarctic winter) he moved to the warmer side of the continent but his style remains.
Paul Queior: returned for the 2009-10 summer as the systems administrator. Earlier he was the 2008 winter network engineer, whatever that is. One thing he covered was the cruise ship Ushuaia call at Palmer in December 2008 not long before that vessel ran aground.
UAB in Antarctica: They were back in 2010, and this is the latest blog from that visit. Great stuff!
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 was at Palmer for the first part of the 2009 winter. As of early 2011 he is working at the American embassy in Moscow.
vagabumming: is really Will Brubaker, a friend and good guy who was one of my fellow 2008 Pole winterovers. He was at Palmer for more of the 2009 winter, scroll back on this blog for good stuff and photos.
Amber Bates: was the winter 2008 lab tech, she stayed around until April 2009. She's got some excellent photos around station...and of her subsequent travels until she ended up on Kwaj with David in October 2010.
Seren Thompson: was around for the 2007-08 summer. Several great things to recommend on his 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 his blog is here.
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.
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)
Palmer science sitreps between 1990 and 2007 and other stuff are on the bibliography section of the LTER site.: 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: former Palmer lab operations supervisor, put together this excellent photography site.
2008-09 USAP Science Summary: for Palmer Station, from the USAP 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.
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.
A new look (August 2007) at Captain Nathaniel B. Palmer's historic house: in Stonington, Connecticut.