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Interesting, it reads a lot like the USAP participant [0] and field manuals [1]: [0] https://www.usap.gov/USAPgov/travelAndDeployment/documents/ParticipantGuid
by joshvm 5y ago
Interesting, it reads a lot like the USAP participant [0] and field manuals [1]:
[0] https://www.usap.gov/USAPgov/travelAndDeployment/documents/ParticipantGuide_2018-20.pdf https://www.usap.gov/USAPgov/travelAndDeployment/documents/P...
[1] https://www.eol.ucar.edu/system/files/usap-field-manual.pdf https://www.eol.ucar.edu/system/files/usap-field-manual.pdf
You can also find guides for Summit Station (a US/Greenland research base) https://geo-summit.org/documents https://geo-summit.org/documents; in fact most of these bases have publicly available guides and it's fun comparing what facilities are available compared to what you have at your own base. I remember watching the Australian WIFFA [2] movie this year and thinking that damn, these guys have a brewery? Sadly it turns out that got banned this year [3].
Though somewhat funny that it recommends finding an interesting rock to make a belt buckle or gift, that's an absolute no-no in Antaractica.
[2] https://www.wiffa.aq https://www.wiffa.aq
[3] https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-07-28/antarctica-alcohol-crackdown-at-australian-davis/100329618 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-07-28/antarctica-alcohol-cr...
- bacon_waffle 5y agoI'm surprised to see the winter film festival films posted out in the open - my recollection (from 2014 winter, hi!) was that those weren't supposed to be shared off-Ice. People are shy, unsanctioned stuff goes in to the films, authorities often don't take criticism well...