{"id":668,"date":"2016-05-08T20:44:49","date_gmt":"2016-05-09T02:44:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/firncover\/?p=668"},"modified":"2016-05-08T21:17:37","modified_gmt":"2016-05-09T03:17:37","slug":"southern-traverse-completed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/firncover\/2016\/05\/08\/southern-traverse-completed\/","title":{"rendered":"Southern Traverse Completed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our science team has been working virtually non-stop since their arrival on the ice sheet over a week ago. \u00a0Since they&#8217;ve not had any down time, a storm day would have been welcomed, but with near &#8220;balmy&#8221; weather every day so far, they&#8217;ve been working long\u00a012-hour days &#8211; dubbed by the team as &#8220;science-palooza days&#8221;.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_671\" style=\"width: 635px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-671\" class=\"wp-image-671 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/firncover\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2016\/05\/IMG_8563-1024x759.jpg\" alt=\"Photo by Dirk Van As, ACT 2013\" width=\"625\" height=\"463\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/firncover\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2016\/05\/IMG_8563-1024x759.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/firncover\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2016\/05\/IMG_8563-300x222.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/firncover\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2016\/05\/IMG_8563-768x569.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/firncover\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2016\/05\/IMG_8563-624x463.jpg 624w, https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/firncover\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2016\/05\/IMG_8563.jpg 1592w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-671\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Dirk Van As, ACT 2013<\/p><\/div>\n<p>With all tasks completed in the southern section of their traverse, the team is heading back to DYE-2 &#8220;home base&#8221; camp. Since they are well ahead of schedule, there is a \u00a0possibility that they can catch an earlier flight off the ice back to Kangerlussuaq, however, there are no guarantees of that happening just yet &#8211; with storms predicted in the forecast.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our science team has been working virtually non-stop since their arrival on the ice sheet over a week ago. \u00a0Since they&#8217;ve not had any down time, a storm day would have been welcomed, but with near &#8220;balmy&#8221; weather every day so far, they&#8217;ve been working long\u00a012-hour days &#8211; dubbed by the team as &#8220;science-palooza days&#8221;.&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/firncover\/2016\/05\/08\/southern-traverse-completed\/\">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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-02 05:05:14","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category"},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/firncover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668","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=668"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/firncover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":679,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/firncover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668\/revisions\/679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/firncover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/firncover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/firncover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}