![]() ![]() With that said, everyone had the same equipment (thanks INACH),īut I saw many in different groups struggling to stay warm on zodiac Sampling too), and pulling the parka's hood on and off. Wet: see Day 7) but my body's equilibrium temperature had to be trimmedĬonstantly by opening and closing zippers, taking gloves on and off (for This combination I was actually never cold in Antarctica(unless I was Inner liner covered by a waterproof parka and a knit, stocking hat. Above we wore a tee shirt covered by a felt Our typical clothing started with long johns followed by sweats,Ĭovered by waterproof, rip-stop nylon ski pants. At 0☌ a 30 km/h wind makes for a -10☌ wind-chill. Km/h wind from the south that was chilling and from which we had toĬonstantly protect ourselves. Although the air temperature was 2.7° there was a steady 30+ Photograph above, wasn't to protect his nose from stench. The mouth covering on JP (the dark scarf), in the bottom center Turned out, this was the hottest sample we pulled in 15 days of sampling Water and showed lots of metal precipitation. We determined via transectional temperature sampling, yielded 52.6☌ The temperature at the mouth of the spring was 52.6☌ on February 22, 2013.Īt least one mouth of the spring on the edge of the Lake, which Sampling the only geothermal lagoon in Antarctica That we could still smell on our stored equipment back on our cabin on Aquiles at day's end. Spring-proved to compete with the unpleasantness of penguin excrement The yellow deposits on our knees-where we knelt to sample the The sulfur gases produced by the spring were relatively mild but Eruptions in the late 1960s depositedĬentimeters of ash here, and we saw the fine black ash as we walked Sampled down inside the walls at the water's edge and inside (lake side) The volume of the lake clearly changes as steepīanks about 1.5 m high 50+ meters from the water's edge showed. Sampled around this relatively shallow lagoon-about 125 m across on the Off on a shallow beach immediately adjacent to Lake Kroner and we In the morning of our third sampling day our zodiac dropped us Lake Kroner is the only hot spring-fed lagoon in Samples that contained thermophilic bacteria, extremophiles growing atĮlevated temperatures in water heated by the hot volcanic activity under Hot spring-feed lagoon there, Lake Kroner. We were excited to get samples at Deception Island because of the Abandoned whaling and then British base on Whalers Bay in the caldera of Deception Island
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