{"id":708,"date":"2017-10-18T19:33:27","date_gmt":"2017-10-18T19:33:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rosetta.esr.org\/?p=708"},"modified":"2017-10-18T20:27:45","modified_gmt":"2017-10-18T20:27:45","slug":"rosetta-ice-team-heads-back-to-antarctica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rosetta.esr.org\/?p=708","title":{"rendered":"ROSETTA-ICE team heads back to Antarctica"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The ROSETTA-ICE team is once again heading back to Antarctica to map the Ross Ice shelf.\u00a0 And this year, I will be joining them!\u00a0 When I am down there, I will be posting about what it is like to work in Antarctica and more about the ROSETTA-ICE project.<\/p>\n<p>I want to say a special hello to Ms. Ishii&#8217;s 5th grade class at <a href=\"http:\/\/thoreau.lwsd.org\/\">Henry David Thoreau Elementary School<\/a> in Kirkland, WA!\u00a0 They will be following along and I am sure they will be asking great questions.<\/p>\n<p>I leave on Oct 19th, and will make my way to McMurdo Station in the Ross Sea area, where I will meet the rest of the team.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/rosetta.esr.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Capture.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-709\" src=\"https:\/\/rosetta.esr.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Capture-300x284.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"256\" height=\"243\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rosetta.esr.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Capture-300x284.png 300w, https:\/\/rosetta.esr.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Capture-768x726.png 768w, https:\/\/rosetta.esr.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Capture.png 863w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 256px) 100vw, 256px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/rosetta.esr.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Capture2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-710\" src=\"https:\/\/rosetta.esr.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Capture2-293x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"235\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rosetta.esr.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Capture2-293x300.png 293w, https:\/\/rosetta.esr.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Capture2-768x785.png 768w, https:\/\/rosetta.esr.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Capture2.png 794w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 235px) 100vw, 235px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My route to get to McMurdo is shown above. \u00a0 I go from Seattle to San Francisco to Auckland, New Zealand to Christchurch, New Zealand\u00a0 to McMurdo Station, Antarctica.\u00a0\u00a0 I take regular, commercial flights down to Christchurch, where I get to spend two nights, before taking a military flight down to Antarctica.\u00a0 On the full day that I am in Christchurch, I will get issued my polar gear that is required when traveling and working there.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to know about who I am, please visit my staff page (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.esr.org\/staff\/susan-l-howard\/\">Susan L. Howard<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ROSETTA-ICE team is once again heading back to Antarctica to map the Ross Ice shelf.\u00a0 And this year, I will be joining them!\u00a0 When I am down there, I will be posting about what it is like to work in Antarctica and more about the ROSETTA-ICE project. I want to say a special hello to Ms. Ishii&#8217;s 5th grade class at Henry David Thoreau Elementary School in Kirkland, WA!\u00a0 They will be following along and I am sure they will be asking great questions. I leave on Oct 19th, and will make my way to McMurdo Station in the Ross Sea area, where I will meet the rest of the team. My route to get to McMurdo is shown above. \u00a0 I go from Seattle to San Francisco to Auckland, New Zealand to Christchurch, New Zealand\u00a0 to McMurdo Station, Antarctica.\u00a0\u00a0 I take regular, commercial flights down to Christchurch, where I get to spend two nights, before taking a military flight down to Antarctica.\u00a0 On the full day that I am in Christchurch, I will get issued my polar gear that is required when traveling and working there. If you want to know about who I am, please visit my staff page (Susan L. Howard). &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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-708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rosetta.esr.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rosetta.esr.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=708"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/rosetta.esr.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":719,"href":"https:\/\/rosetta.esr.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708\/revisions\/719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rosetta.esr.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rosetta.esr.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rosetta.esr.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}