{"id":1015,"date":"2010-01-03T05:49:33","date_gmt":"2010-01-03T13:49:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/?p=1015"},"modified":"2009-12-21T06:16:10","modified_gmt":"2009-12-21T14:16:10","slug":"my-varied-days-at-rothera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/my-varied-days-at-rothera\/","title":{"rendered":"My varied days at rothera"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My days at Rothera are very varied everyday of the week. On Wednesday I <\/p>\n<p>Went diving at Hanger Cove jumping in between the sea ice (that looked like a slushie) to help with collections and putting down new sediment panels. <\/p>\n<p>Repaired the sewing machine at Fuchs last week and so I sewed up some parts for the Air Mechs for holding flags in the plane and for covering a tube of some sort. <\/p>\n<p>Went to the woodwork shop for several hours and started making a book case for Claires christmas present. I also made Henry and the girls some christmas tree ornaments &#8211; cut outs of a seal, whale and penguin.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/DSCN4703-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"DSCN4703\" title=\"DSCN4703\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1016 colorbox-1015\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/DSCN4703-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/DSCN4703.JPG 448w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I was meant to go for another dive to measure limpets but a leopard seal appeared just as we were about to jump in. <\/p>\n<p>Two boating trips one to north cove to collect sea ice for two different studies. One trip to Lagoon which was a long one as we had three different studies to do out there &#8211; soil sampling and searching for liverwort species of plant. <\/p>\n<p>My normal morning of 5km rowing in the gym and then a walk around the point in the evening. <\/p>\n<p>Met Training to learn how to do field met obs for aircraft operations. <\/p>\n<p>A talk by the Larissa scientists who just got back from the Larsen about their project. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My days at Rothera are very varied everyday of the week. On Wednesday I Went diving at Hanger Cove jumping in between the sea ice (that looked like a slushie) to help with collections and putting down new sediment panels. Repaired the sewing machine at Fuchs last week and so I sewed up some parts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antarctic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1015"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1060,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015\/revisions\/1060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}