{"id":239,"date":"2015-05-14T07:52:03","date_gmt":"2015-05-14T13:52:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/firncover\/?p=239"},"modified":"2015-05-14T08:00:56","modified_gmt":"2015-05-14T14:00:56","slug":"pinned-down-at-nasa-se-camp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/firncover\/2015\/05\/14\/pinned-down-at-nasa-se-camp\/","title":{"rendered":"Pinned Down at NASA-SE Camp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A text message from Mike this morning informed me that the team is held back yet another day as weather has deteriorated into whiteout conditions. \u00a0However, winds are expected to calm down later in the day. \u00a0If weather\u00a0improves as projected, the team will begin traversing to Saddle Camp tomorrow. \u00a0Considering that the team has been working virtually non stop since they&#8217;ve arrived on the ice sheet, the (hopefully short-lived) windstorm\u00a0allows them to take\u00a0a bit\u00a0of a much needed break!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_241\" style=\"width: 494px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/firncover\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2015\/05\/Photo-May-10-12-09-55-AM.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-241\" class=\" wp-image-241\" src=\"http:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/firncover\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2015\/05\/Photo-May-10-12-09-55-AM-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"Photo by Karen Alley, 2013.\" width=\"484\" height=\"271\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/firncover\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2015\/05\/Photo-May-10-12-09-55-AM-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/firncover\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2015\/05\/Photo-May-10-12-09-55-AM-1024x573.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/firncover\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2015\/05\/Photo-May-10-12-09-55-AM-624x349.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 484px) 100vw, 484px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-241\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Karen Alley, ACT-13, 2013.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The graph below, plotted by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.williamcolgan.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">William Colgan<\/a>, indicates the team&#8217;s snowmobile speeds on their traverses in East Greenland thus far:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_240\" style=\"width: 532px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/firncover\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2015\/05\/Screen-Shot-2015-05-14-at-7.26.28-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-240\" class=\" wp-image-240\" src=\"http:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/firncover\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2015\/05\/Screen-Shot-2015-05-14-at-7.26.28-AM.png\" alt=\"Average snowmobile speeds - courtesy of William Colgan, GEUS.\" width=\"522\" height=\"421\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/firncover\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2015\/05\/Screen-Shot-2015-05-14-at-7.26.28-AM.png 742w, https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/firncover\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2015\/05\/Screen-Shot-2015-05-14-at-7.26.28-AM-300x241.png 300w, https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/firncover\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2015\/05\/Screen-Shot-2015-05-14-at-7.26.28-AM-624x502.png 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 522px) 100vw, 522px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-240\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Snowmobile speeds &#8211; courtesy of William Colgan, GEUS.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A text message from Mike this morning informed me that the team is held back yet another day as weather has deteriorated into whiteout conditions. \u00a0However, winds are expected to calm down later in the day. \u00a0If weather\u00a0improves as projected, the team will begin traversing to Saddle Camp tomorrow. \u00a0Considering that the team has been&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/firncover\/2015\/05\/14\/pinned-down-at-nasa-se-camp\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[15,5,13,16,9],"class_list":["post-239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-traverse","tag-arctic-circle","tag-greenland","tag-ice-sheet","tag-snowmobile","tag-traverse-2"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-01 01:22:10","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/firncover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/firncover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/firncover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/firncover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/firncover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/firncover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":245,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/firncover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions\/245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/firncover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/firncover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/firncover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}