Let the fun begin!

Finally, we've reached Palmer Station! The last couple of days we have been through countless orientations (kitchen, station life, lab waste, radiation training, boating I, boating II, etc). We've also been setting up the lab and getting all our experiments planned for a long first day of sampling (today).

It's nice to start the science though! All the work I do and samples I collect are for my thesis work at the University of Delaware, so it's good to begin the work. I've included a random mishmash of photos below from the last few days. We had a run-in with a seal while boating and the glaciers are looking lovely. Also lots of cold (32-35 F) days with snow falling as icy rain or fat flakes.