During the afternoon of the last day of the European Geophysical Union meeting in Vienna, I had two very interesting conversations, one with a member of the IRIS-PASSCAL polar team, and the other with a friendly glaciologist I knew from Concordia. The...

Wishing you all a very merry Christmas, hopefully as merry as ours was... The evening started with champagne and strawberry wine apéritif, then went on to a gargantuan dinner (carpaccio, snails, salmon tagliatelle, poire wiliam sorbet, capriolo...

Two days to Christmas, and the nose is still firmly to the grindstone. It looks like we might finally be centering in on the problem with the datalogger, and that it might be caused by a faulty component. A replacement is being sent to us via...

You may recall from my descriptions of the seismic observatory at Concordia in last year's blog posts, that we have two seismometers down there, each connected to a different data logger. Both have worked reasonably well over the course of 2008,...

Days of the week swiftly loose their meaning when you are cut off from the rest of the world. Just as we try to keep a normal 24 hour daily schedule, we also try to keep a normal weekly schedule. Sundays are set up to be a day of rest: breakfast is...