The Crary Lab

Since today is Sunday, which means the entire station has the day off, I decided to walk down to the Crary Lab and go on a little science tour they were holding this afternoon.  The Crary Lab is the main science facility here at McMurdo, and throughout the course of a season approximately 1,000 scientists will cycle in and out of the lab conducting all kinds of experiments.  The scientists are studying all kinds of different things from the area; Mt Erebus (the volcano), sea life, meteors, etc.

They took us through the lab and we were able to check out some of their various displays.  Along the way we heard from some of the scientists about different types of experiments they are conducting right now with some of the different species of fish in the area.  We were also able to go into the science aquarium area and check out some of the different types of fish species that live under the ice, and they also had a “touch tank” set up that you could stick your hand in and touch some of the different animals which was pretty cool. 

Other than that not too much going on for today, the temperature has been around –3 degrees F, for most of the day and with the wind chill, they are saying it is more like –14.  I guess tomorrow is my first official day of work down here so should be another long busy day, but makes for the time to go by a little faster.