Fieldwork to the McMurdo Ice Shelf in January 2004, with Neil Glasser, Becky Goodsell and Wendy Lawson from University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand. Funding and logistical support from Antarctica New Zealand. Photographs by Neil Glasser.
Deployment to the field
Moving across the ice shelf
Moving together, Alpine style
Using differential GPS on the ice shelf
An exposure of ice beneath the sediments
Structures on the ice shelf
Meltwater lakes on the ice shelf
Meltwater lakes on the ice shelf
Basecamp, McMurdo Ice Shelf
The wind forms structures in the snow and ice
Junction between the ice shelf and land, with tidal movement.
Marine organisms sometimes end up on the surface of the ice shelf
McMurdo Ice Shelf from the air
Coring the ice shelf
Helicopter support
Helicopter support
Meltwater lakes on the ice shelf
Structure of the ice shelf, with ice-shelf moraines and moraines on the land
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