I attended the Sunday evening science lecture. The lecturer was a biologist that studies seals. He drills a hole in the ice out in the middle of nowhere Antarctica, where there aren't any holes at all. Then he captures some seals and relocates them to his hole. Because it's the only hole around, and the seals only access to and from the ocean (where they do all of their hunting/eating), they have to stay near the hole all season. This way he can study the same seals the whole season without any of them leaving. He showed us video clips from when they glued little video cameras to the seals heads and recorded them swimming around underwater. He also attaches all sorts of monitors to the seals and measures physiological changes when they go for the deep dives. Their heart rate gets down to like two beats a minute when they are super deep.
I spent the better part of the night sweeping.
During our morning janitor meeting we talked about early signs of depression and preventative measures.
All is well.
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A brief, day-to-day account of my summer spent in Antarctica.
2 comments:
How are you adjusting to the eternal daylight and nighttime work?
I haven't had many adjustment issues, my bedroom doesn't have any windows, so as far as it knows, its always dark at my sleeping time. 10 p.m. is 5 a.m. Eastern time (before the recent time change), so really the night hours here are closer to what my body is used (early to bed, early to rise).
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