{"id":2143,"date":"2010-04-30T09:20:25","date_gmt":"2010-04-30T15:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/?p=2143"},"modified":"2010-04-30T09:20:25","modified_gmt":"2010-04-30T15:20:25","slug":"antarctica-voyage-a-unique-intellectual-adventure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/2010\/04\/antarctica-voyage-a-unique-intellectual-adventure\/","title":{"rendered":"Antarctica Voyage: A Unique, Intellectual Adventure!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Photo by Mark Skilling<\/p><\/div>\n

Eighteen CC alumni, spouses, and family members participated in a journey to Antarctica led by CC Geology Professor Christine Siddoway, who has been conducting geological research in Antarctica for more than 20 years. The CC contingent met in Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina, and on December 31 boarded the Corinthian II<\/em>, which served as their home, lecture hall, dining facility, and expedition staging area for the next 12 days. Coincidentally, also on board the Corinthian II<\/em> was a group from the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, led by Museum Director Sam Taylor \u201973<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The trip, says Amy Louis \u201984<\/strong>, epitomized CC\u2019s \u201cunique intellectual adventure.\u201d The uniqueness was apparent in the travelers\u2019 desire not only to embark upon a journey to this remote destination, but also to learn about Antarctica\u2019s place in the Earth\u2019s system. The intellectual component came from shipboard lectures presented by Siddoway, who introduced such topics as \u201cThe Hidden Deeps of Drake Passage: A Gem of Geology and Plate Tectonics\u201d on the southbound passage; \u201cFire and Ice in Antarctica: Active Volcanoes of Antarctica\u201d; \u201cIce Sheet and Ocean Linkages: Antarctica\u2019s Place in the Global Climate System\u201d co-presented with Taylor while in the Lemaire Channel (a strait between the mainland\u2019s Antarctic Peninsula and Booth Island); and \u201cGreenhouse Antarctica\u201d while northbound across Drake Passage.<\/p>\n

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Photo by Mark Skilling<\/p><\/div>\n

And adventure<\/em> was everywhere. The group observed penguins, climbed volcanic summits, slid down ice chutes, plunged into polar water, and tested the water of thermal pools. They went ashore at Vernadsky Station (Ukraine), the southernmost point of the journey, where meteorological and hydrographical research is conducted, and ventured to Wordie Hut, named after a member of Shackleton\u2019s expedition. In astonishing sunshine, they had a deck-side barbecue.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis last, vast wilderness of our planet truly brings out the best in humankind \u2013 we want to explore it and we want to learn from it,\u201d said Ann Pfeiffenberger O\u2019Neill \u201983<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\u201cNone of us thinks we will ever take another Antarctic cruise,\u201d says Kim Skilling \u201979<\/strong>, part of three generations of Skillings on the trip. \u201cThe trip was so perfect we fear that any other trip would be doomed to disappoint.\u201d<\/p>\n

The trip\u2019s expedition log, transit map, and more photos and reflections by the participants are available here.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

If you are interested in joining a future alumni trip to Antarctica, please contact Geology@ColoradoCollege.edu<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Eighteen CC alumni, spouses, and family members participated in a journey to Antarctica led by CC Geology Professor Christine Siddoway, who has been conducting geological research in Antarctica for more than 20 years. The CC contingent met in Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina, and on December 31 boarded the Corinthian II, which served as their…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-2143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-april-2010","tag-features"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}