{"id":301,"date":"2016-11-13T01:50:44","date_gmt":"2016-11-13T01:50:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rosetta.esr.org\/?p=301"},"modified":"2016-11-17T09:19:15","modified_gmt":"2016-11-17T09:19:15","slug":"301","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rosetta.esr.org\/?p=301","title":{"rendered":"Arriving at McMurdo Station"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Our ground transportation meets us at Pegasus Airfield. \u00a0Top speed: 25 mph.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Despite Ivan’s impressive size from the outside, it carries about the same number of people (56) as a city bus.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Finally we reach our destination after almost an hour. \u00a0Vehicles must travel slowly to reduce damage to the ice road so that it can be used for as long as possible into the summer.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Upon arriving in McMurdo Station, we immediately attend our first orientation meeting. \u00a0It is the first of many meetings to educate us on how to live in the potentially dangerous yet fragile environment of Antarctica.<\/p>\n

We then pick up our baggage and find our rooms. \u00a0Everybody shares a room, and two neighboring rooms share a bathroom. \u00a0There is some shuffling of roommates and I end up rooming with one of my co-workers on the ROSETTA project.<\/p>\n

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One of the dormitory buildings.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Upon arriving in McMurdo Station, we immediately attend our first orientation meeting. \u00a0It is the first of many meetings to educate us on how to live in the potentially dangerous yet fragile environment of Antarctica. We then pick up our baggage and find our rooms. \u00a0Everybody shares a room, and two neighboring rooms share a bathroom. \u00a0There is some shuffling of roommates and I end up rooming with one of my co-workers on the ROSETTA project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rosetta.esr.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rosetta.esr.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rosetta.esr.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rosetta.esr.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rosetta.esr.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=301"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/rosetta.esr.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":411,"href":"https:\/\/rosetta.esr.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301\/revisions\/411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rosetta.esr.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rosetta.esr.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rosetta.esr.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}