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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<font color="#E5E5E5"> it takes well we're</font>

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focused on Pine Island glacier the one

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place<font color="#CCCCCC"> in Antarctica where things are</font>

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happening fastest and<font color="#CCCCCC"> the changes are</font>

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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<font color="#E5E5E5"> snow right</font>

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<font color="#E5E5E5">there to be</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> able to</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> make the</font>

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measurements of what is<font color="#E5E5E5"> going on</font>

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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<font color="#E5E5E5"> the future is going to be</font>

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we want<font color="#CCCCCC"> to</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> go back as soon as we can and</font>

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we're being<font color="#E5E5E5"> held back by</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the need to</font>

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establish this helicopter support camp

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and that's<font color="#E5E5E5"> going to take at least</font>

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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<font color="#E5E5E5"> hoping</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> to</font>

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use the surface is too rough and too

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hard to safely establish our<font color="#CCCCCC"> peel camp</font>

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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<font color="#E5E5E5"> 12 you can</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> actually do something</font>

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in<font color="#CCCCCC"> the field so that's one thing that</font>

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slows it down the fact that we are<font color="#E5E5E5"> so</font>

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<font color="#CCCCCC">far from McMurdo and having to wait two</font>

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years<font color="#E5E5E5"> just to have the type of camp that</font>

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<font color="#E5E5E5">we have to have there so we can get</font>

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safely onto the ice<font color="#E5E5E5"> shelf the scale of</font>

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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<font color="#CCCCCC"> 1400</font>

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miles away but<font color="#E5E5E5"> that final 400 miles</font>

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that's going to be this over snow

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<font color="#E5E5E5">Traverse that's going</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> to be very slow</font>

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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<font color="#E5E5E5"> and then getting on a very</font>

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slow lawnmower and driving at<font color="#E5E5E5"> lon lower</font>

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speed from Kansas<font color="#E5E5E5"> City</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> out to Denver so</font>

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it does take<font color="#CCCCCC"> some time well while the</font>

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<font color="#CCCCCC">people who are working on setting up</font>

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this camp are doing their thing we're

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doing<font color="#CCCCCC"> our thing which is science so</font>

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although we can't be at the<font color="#CCCCCC"> Ice Shelf</font>

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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<font color="#E5E5E5"> shelf before we go</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> back</font>

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well one of one<font color="#CCCCCC"> of the really neat</font>

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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<font color="#E5E5E5"> to discover something we just know</font>

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we're<font color="#E5E5E5"> going to discover something</font>

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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<font color="#CCCCCC"> and how the ice</font>

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sheets responding so discovery is a sure

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thing discovery is<font color="#E5E5E5"> always the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> most</font>

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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<font color="#E5E5E5"> frustrating to have to wait but</font>

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we learn as much as we can in the

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intervening time to be even<font color="#CCCCCC"> better</font>

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prepared<font color="#E5E5E5"> to do the science which once we</font>

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<font color="#E5E5E5">actually have the opportunity to</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> be</font>

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there it does take time but the reward

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is<font color="#CCCCCC"> the discoveries that we make</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> and the</font>

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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

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worth the frustration that<font color="#E5E5E5"> makes it</font>

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worth the effort

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you