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there are frustrations in doing this

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science and probably the greatest

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frustration especially with polar

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research is how long it takes well we're

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focused on Pine Island glacier the one

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place in Antarctica where things are

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happening fastest and the changes are

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the greatest the satellites have

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directed us there but we have to get our

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boots on the ground into the snow right

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there to be able to make the

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measurements of what is going on

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underneath the ice to understand the

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details of those processes so we can

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predict what the future is going to be

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we want to go back as soon as we can and

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we're being held back by the need to

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establish this helicopter support camp

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and that's going to take at least

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another two seasons to complete we

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learned that we can't land with the

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small airplanes that we were hoping to

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use the surface is too rough and too

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hard to safely establish our peel camp

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with a fixed-wing aircraft you can only

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work in Antarctica about three months

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out of the year so already it's four

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times slower because three months out of

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every 12 you can actually do something

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in the field so that's one thing that

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slows it down the fact that we are so

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far from McMurdo and having to wait two

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years just to have the type of camp that

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we have to have there so we can get

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safely onto the ice shelf the scale of

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the journey is is quite massive just

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because this is a long way from McMurdo

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that the major US base this is 1400

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miles away but that final 400 miles

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that's going to be this over snow

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Traverse that's going to be very slow

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and laborious so the scale of this is

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like going from from McMurdo to West

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Antarctica that's like flying from DC to

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Kansas City and then getting on a very

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slow lawnmower and driving at lon lower

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speed from Kansas City out to Denver so

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it does take some time well while the

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people who are working on setting up

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this camp are doing their thing we're

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doing our thing which is science so

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although we can't be at the Ice Shelf

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itself we're looking at other satellite

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data to learn as much as we possibly can

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about the ice shelf before we go back

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well one of one of the really neat

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things about this project is that

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because nobody has ever made these

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measurements and this is such a

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dramatically changing area that we're

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going to discover something we just know

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we're going to discover something

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because nobody has ever looked

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underneath this very active ice shelf

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and looked at how the ocean is

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interacting with the ice and how the ice

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sheets responding so discovery is a sure

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thing discovery is always the most

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exciting thing about doing science I

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mean I am just itching to go and is

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really frustrating to have to wait but

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we learn as much as we can in the

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intervening time to be even better

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prepared to do the science which once we

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actually have the opportunity to be

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there it does take time but the reward

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is the discoveries that we make and the

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the increase in knowledge and ability to

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predict what these ice sheets are going

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to do in the future and how it will

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affect people worldwide that makes it