Clothing Distribution Center

8/27/2015

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By Peter Kimball

We made it to Christchurch, NZ! We went to bed last night planning to fly to McMurdo today, but weather has kept us in Christchurch for the time being. We did go to the USAP Clothing Distribution Center (CDC) to receive our Extreme Cold Weather (ECW) gear (photos above). While there, we also had our computers checked for anti-virus compliance and received anti-virus (flu) shots ourselves. We checked into a new hotel and spent the rest of the day analyzing data from our last ARTEMIS lake test in TX.

The current plan is that we fly tomorrow, but the forecast indicates more bad weather ahead - if we can't fly tomorrow, we may be stuck here until Saturday. Christchurch is nice, but we're keen to get to it!

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About the Blog

This is the personal blog of Peter Kimball and Evan Clark, following our deployment with the ARTEMIS long-range underwater robotic vehicle to explore beneath the McMurdo Ice Shelf in Antarctica.

Authors

Peter Kimball is an aerospace engineer and field roboticist on the Stone Aerospace ARTEMIS project.

Evan Clark is a computer scientist and field roboticist on the Stone Aerospace ARTEMIS project.

Kristof Richmond is a mechanical engineer and field roboticist on the Stone Aerospace ARTEMIS project.