HMP Research Station Status Report

The plane was delayed due to wind in both Resolute and on Devon Island and will try again tomorrow. It rained on and off throughout the day.

Neil Banerjee (University of Western Ontario) and his students, Matthew Izawa and Mike Liberty, got arctic facials in both directions of their traverse, thanks to wind and rain. He and his team had a good day, and in fact it was fairly dry most of the time they were out.

Brian Glass, Principal Investigator for the Drilling Automation for Mars Exploration project (DAME) at NASA Ames, led his crew to the hydrothermal sites to look at potential core sampling sites. The DAME crew consists of Sarah Thompson (NASA Ames), Sarah Huffman (NASA Ames), Shannon Statham (Georgia Tech) and Joanna Cohen (Honeybee Robotics). They met their goals for the day and plan to raise the DAME tent on Thursday.

The Arthur C. Clarke Greenhouse team, Matt Bamsey (CSA) and Tom Graham (University of Guelph) have finished packing up the greenhouse and are ready to depart.

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