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Icy Sea Slugs

Freezing For Science

About Me

Hailing from the Great White North of Missoula, MT, Art Woods and Jon Sprague are traveling to the Great White South of McMurdo Station, Antarctica. Join them, as they journey to the bottom of the world in search of adventure, snow, frostbite, and nudibranch.

Weather in McMurdo

My Interests

Cold, Ice, Swimming Under Ice,

Heroes:

Roald Amundsen and Robert Edwin Peary

My Blog

Home again.

Well, after 36 hours of traveling, I'm home . . . well, I'm back in Montana.  The apartment is here, as is the stuff, and the cat, but I'm staying with Creagh and Art, and Rachel is on Kauai,...
Posted by Icy Sea Slugs on Tue, 12 Dec 2006 12:02:00 PST

Surface Supply

An alternate title for this post could be "Gear, gear, gear, gear, gear . . ." This is the second time I have written this blog.  The first time it was eaten by MySpace.  The original was a...
Posted by Icy Sea Slugs on Tue, 05 Dec 2006 10:29:00 PST

Check out this video: Adelie Penguins

New Penguin video by Erika. Posted By:Icy Sea SlugsGet this video and more at MySpace.com...
Posted by Icy Sea Slugs on Sun, 03 Dec 2006 11:33:00 PST

Cape Royds, Shackleton's Hut, and Why Penguins are Terrifying.

A few days ago, Erika, Bruce and I had the distinct pleasure of going out to Cape Royds to help Rob and Steve make a new dive hole so they could retrieve a current meter.  Drilling a new dive hol...
Posted by Icy Sea Slugs on Sun, 03 Dec 2006 10:45:00 PST

More Penguins!

I finally got to see penguins.  Will put more photos up tomorrow.  ...
Posted by Icy Sea Slugs on Wed, 29 Nov 2006 04:38:00 PST

Farewell to Art and Amy

Art and Amy left us today.  Yesterday we had a going away party with Steve, Rob, and Christian (dive guys) that included a fair amount of Jameson on the rocks (the ice coming from the Barne Glaci...
Posted by Icy Sea Slugs on Tue, 28 Nov 2006 10:48:00 PST

Nightmare

I have nightmares about this combo:  a Giant Antarctic Isopod with a Pycnogonid riding on top of it.  Terrifying.  ...
Posted by Icy Sea Slugs on Tue, 28 Nov 2006 05:25:00 PST

More Photos on Flickr

Uploaded a bunch of photos on Flickr . . . including penguins.  ...
Posted by Icy Sea Slugs on Sat, 25 Nov 2006 06:30:00 PST

Coast Guard Diver Deaths

Under the Fast Ice of McMurdo Sound.Add to My Profile | More Videos This past week there have been several news reports detailing some of the circumstance behind the deaths of two Coast Guard divers i...
Posted by Icy Sea Slugs on Sat, 25 Nov 2006 06:10:00 PST

Gobble

Posted by Jon: Happy Turkey Day all.  It's early for us.  Holidays here are much as they are in the Sprague family:  moveable feasts.  As a result, to give the folks here an extrem...
Posted by Icy Sea Slugs on Thu, 23 Nov 2006 12:37:00 PST