A Time For Reflection At Terror Rift | The Daily Nexus
February 5, 2021 at 11:30 am by Sean Crommelin âAll work that is done in Antarctica is hard and difficult,â Bruce Luyendyk, a professor emeritus and oceanographer with the Earth Research Institute at UC Santa Barbara, told me over Zoom. Research icebreaker N.B. Palmer in the sea ice of McMurdo Sound. Mount Erebus is in the background. This ship was used in UCSB surveys of the Terror Rift in the Ross Sea by Luyendyk and his students. Courtesy of Bruce Luyendyk The temperature is miserably, sometimes even incomprehensibly, cold. The weather can be inclement and stormy. On m...
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