NEARING THE END

The 2002 field work for ICE2001 and the companion projects by the Americans and Japanese are now completed.

Most of the scientists and field crews are home. The prized ice cores and other samples collected by Canadian and American teams are in their respective home bases, having successfully made the long truck journey across the continent. The Japanese core and samples are ship-bound for Tokyo (an earlier report erroneously said they would travel by air).

All team members are taking some rest and catching up with life after weeks far from home in Canada's remote northwest.

The last job had been the installation of a remote weather station at the Icefields location (See photo). There are now three such stations left on Logan for the winter, the other two being at the high drill site of Prospector-Russell Col and on the Seward Glacier. The stations' accumulated data will be down-loaded by a crew in the spring of 2003. Good weather records are rare in such remote locations and any opportunity is seized to install these remote stations.

The next step is to start the long, slow, careful job of analyzing the samples-more about this in the next Weekly Report.

A remote weather station at Prospector-Russell Col. The control box and battery will be buried in the snow. Photo courtesy Mike Waskiewicz.