Date |
Activity |
01 Apr 01
|
NBP01-2 Late Cretaceous and
Cenozoic reconstructions of the
Southwest Pacific (Stock) |
20 Apr 01 |
LMG01-4 Livingston Island
Field Camp closing (Hall) and Southern
Ocean Global Ocean Ecosystem Dynamics cruise (SO-GLOBEC)
(Fraser, Hallam, Harvey, Torres, Vernet, Zhou,) |
23 Apr 01 |
NBP01-3 SO-GLOBEC (Beardsley,
Fanning, Hildebrand, Hofmann,
Ribic, Vernet, Wiebe) |
11 Jun 01 |
LMG01-5 Structure, Function
and Expression of Tubulins, Globins,
and Microtubule-Dependent Motors from Cold-Adapted Antarctic
Fishes & Proteins of Oxygen-Binding & Energy
Metabolism in
Muscles of Antarctic Fishes (Detrich, Sidell) |
21 Jul 01 |
NBP01-4 SO-GLOBEC (Beardsley,
Fanning, Fritsen, Hallam,
Hildebrand, Hofmann, Padman, Pwell, Ribic, Vernet, Wiebe,
Zhou) |
21 Jul 01 |
LMG01-6 SO-GLOBEC (Costa,
Fraser, Fritsen, Harvey,
Martinson, Ross) |
20 Aug 01 |
First flight to McMurdo
Station for Winfly operations (1 of 5) |
1 Sep 01 |
LMG01-7 LMG Maintenance
Period and Acoustic Doppler Current
Profiler Sea Trials |
7 Sep 01 |
NBP01-5 Long-Term
Ecological Research Project (Winter Cruise)
(Fraser, Karl, Martinson, Quetin/Ross, Ray Smith, Vernet) |
20 Sep 01 |
LMG01-8 Palmer Station
support cruise #1 |
02 Oct 01 |
First C-141 mission to
McMurdo Station during Ice Runway period
(1 of 18); McMurdo Station commenced summer operations |
03 Oct 01 |
First C-17 mission to
McMurdo Station of the season (1 of 5) |
7 Oct 01 |
LMG01-8A Penguin-Krill-Ice
Interactions: The Impact of
Environmental Variability on Penguin Demography at
Copacabana
Field Camp (Trivelpiece) |
8 Oct 01 |
Lake Bonney field camp
opens |
08 Oct 01 |
Marble Point opens |
11 Oct 01 |
Pieter J. Lenie Field
Station (Copacabana) opens |
11 Oct 01 |
Lake Hoare field camp opens |
11 Oct 01 |
F6 field camp opens |
12 Oct 01 |
Lake Fryxell field camp
opens |
19 Oct 01 |
Four (4) 109th
AW LC-130’s arrive McMurdo Station to start
on-continent missions |
24 Oct 01 |
South Pole Station begins
summer operations |
25 Oct 01 |
Siple Dome field camp opens |
27 Oct 01 |
LMG01-8B Palmer Station
support cruise #2 |
01 Nov 01 |
Byrd Surface Camp opens |
03 Nov 01 |
Onset D field camp opens |
05 Nov 01 |
109th AW brings
a fifth LC-130 to McMurdo Station |
05 Nov 01 |
Odell Glacier field camp
opens |
9 Nov 01 |
NBP01-6 Acquisition and
Operation of Broadband Seismograph
Equipment at Chilean Bases in the Antarctic Peninsula Region
(Wiens); CORC-Arches (Visbeck); Open Cape Sherriff
Field
Camp |
12 Nov 01 |
C-130 flights to McMurdo
Station operated by Royal New Zealand
Air Force began (1 of 15). |
13 Nov 01 |
LMG Maintenance Period at
Punta Arenas, Chile |
14 Nov 01 |
Tamseis field camp opens |
15 Nov 01 |
Cape Sherriff field camp
opens |
16 Nov 01 |
Tamesis field camp opens |
2 Dec 01 |
LMG01-9 Biogeography of the
Antarctic Benthos (Scheltema) &
Dynamics of Predator-Prey Behavior in the Antarctic Ocean
&
Dispersal of Planktonic Invertebrate Larvae (Veit) |
5 Dec 01 |
NBP01-07 Global Climate
Change and the Evolutionary Ecology of
Antarctic Mollusks in the Late Eocene (Aronson) &
Development of
a Luminescence Dating Capability for Antarctic Glaciomarine
Sediments: Tests of Signal Zeroing at the Antarctic Peninsula
(Berger) |
08 Dec 01 |
Transfer flight operations
from Sea Ice Runway to Williams Field
Skiway and Pegasus Blue Ice Runway |
10 Dec 01 |
The first of 11 C-130
missions to McMurdo Station operated by the
50th EA Squadron, Little Rock, Arkansas
began. |
19 Dec 01 |
Tamseis field camp closes |
24 Dec 01 |
Coast Guard Icebreaker Polar Star
arrives at the ice edge |
02 Jan 02 |
LMG02-1 Long-Term Study of
the Antarctic Marine Ecosystem: An
Ice-Dominated Environment (LTER)(Fraser, Vernet, Martinson
Quetin, Smith, Karl) |
05 Jan 02 |
Coast Guard Icebreaker Polar Sea
arrives at the ice edge |
10 Jan 02 |
Byrd Surface Camp closes |
18 Jan 02 |
NBP02-1 Late Pleistocene to
Holocene Glacial History of West
Antarctica |
22 Jan 02 |
Onset D field camp closes |
22 Jan 02 |
M/T Gus W. Darnell (tanker)
moored at McMurdo Station ice
pier and commenced station refueling operations |
26 Jan 02 |
Refueling operations
completed; MT Gus W. Darnell departs
McMurdo Station |
28 Jan 02 |
Siple Dome field camp
closes |
29 Jan 02 |
First C-141 mission to
McMurdo Station for redeployment (1 of 13) |
29 Jan 02 |
Odell Glacer camp closes |
04 Feb 02 |
Lake Fryxell camp closes |
02 Feb 02 |
M/V Greenwave arrives
McMurdo Station ice pier, cargo
offload operations commence |
5 Feb 02 |
Lake Hoare camp closes |
06 Feb 02 |
LMG02-1A SO GLOBEC Mooring
Cruise (PIs) |
06 Feb 02 |
Marble Point closes |
06 Feb 02 |
Lake Bonney field camp
closes |
10 Feb 02 |
M/V Greenwave departs
McMurdo Station ice pier, cargo
operations complete |
10 Feb 02 |
US Coast Guard icebreaker Polar
Star departs the
McMurdo area |
13 Feb 02 |
US Coast Guard icebreaker Polar Sea departs the
McMurdo area |
11 Feb 02 |
F6 camp closes |
15 Feb 02 |
Winter Operation commence
at South Pole Station |
15 Feb 02 |
First C-17 mission to
McMurdo Station for redeployment (1 of 2) |
17 Feb 02 |
Final C-17 turnaround
mission at McMurdo Station |
19 Feb 02 |
Final C-141 turnaround
mission at McMurdo Station |
20 Feb 02 |
109th AW departs McMurdo
Station |
20 Feb 02 |
Cape Shirreff Field Camp
closes |
22 Feb 02 |
McMurdo Station commences
winter-over operations |
01 Mar 02 |
Pieter J. Lenie Field
Station ("Copacabana") closes |
05 Mar 02 |
NBP02-1A Open Period |
07 Mar 02 |
LMG02-1B Palmer Station
Shuttle & Mooring Recovery (Rob
Dunbar) |
10 Mar 02 |
NBP02-1B Seismic System
Test Cruise |
18 Mar 02 |
NBP02-1C Open Period Begins |
22 Mar 02 |
LMG02-2 Palmer Station
Shuttle |
LMG
= R/V Laurence M. Gould
NBP = R/V Nathaniel B. Palmer |