“Yesterday afternoon we had skidoo and crevasse rescue training, two very useful skills to have in the Antarctic! We started off with skidoo maintenance and some basic fixing, useful to know, but hopefully we will never get into a situation where we would need this knowledge. Driving a skidoo on the snow is quite easy…

Before we can venture too far away from the station to look for suitable samples, we need to get some safety training and familiarize ourselves with working in Antarctica.  Also, just to reassure those that may be worried about our safety, when ever we go sampling in the field away from the station we will…