Section II of the Modifications of Activities Planned for 1998-99 lists the actual dates of significant events occurring during this time period.
Significant Dates of Expeditions
|
Date |
Activity |
|
26 Mar 98 |
LMG98-3 and LMG98-3A Passengers transport and station
support |
|
08 Apr 98 |
Maintenance Period begins for R/V NBP, Lyttelton, New
Zealand |
|
01 May 98 |
NBP98-3 support of Ross Sea studies |
|
09 May 98 |
LMG98-4 and LMG98-5 passenger transport to Palmer
Station |
|
25 Jun 98 |
NBP98-4 transit to Punta Arenas to pickup Haz/Rad
waste |
|
25 Jul 98 |
NBP98-5 Vessel off loads Haz/Rad waste and begins
maintenance port call in Seattle,
WA |
|
28 Jul 98 |
LMG98-6 and LMG98-7 Maintenance Dry Dock period,
Talcahuano |
|
22 Aug 98 |
First flight of Winfly |
|
10 Sep 98 |
LMG98-8 and LMG98-9 Station Support and COPA opening |
|
14 Sep 98 |
Palmer Station opens |
|
20 Sep 98 |
NBP98-6 Pacific Ocean transit, ARVOC, multi-beam sea
trials |
|
03 Oct 98 |
McMurdo Station opens for Mainbody |
|
04 Oct 98 |
First C-5 mission to McMurdo of the season (1
of 5) |
|
04 Oct 98 |
Marble Point opens |
|
12 Oct 98 |
LMG98-9 Neale/Mopper cruise and support of Palmer
Station |
|
27 Oct 98 |
Siple Dome opens |
|
13 Oct 98 |
109th AW arrives at McMurdo (1st Aircraft of 4) |
|
28 Oct 98 |
South Pole opens (Winfly) |
|
29 Oct 98 |
Downstream B opens |
|
02 Nov 98 |
NBP98-7 Third installment of multi-disciplinary
project (Dunbar) in the Ross Sea |
|
24 Nov 98 |
LMG98-10 Island Hoppers, vessel supported field
studies |
|
01 Dec 98 |
Fueling operations at Vostok Station |
|
01 Dec 98 |
Vostok Station opens |
|
12 Dec 98 |
Move runway from sea ice to Williams field skiway. |
|
26 Dec 98 |
NBP99-1 Studies of sea-ice communities in the Ross Sea |
|
06 Jan 99 |
LMG99-1 LTER cruise Bellingshausen Sea |
|
06 Jan 99 |
Downstream B closes |
|
22 Jan 99 |
M/T LAWRENCE H. GIANELLA departs McMurdo |
|
25 Jan 99 |
Marble Point refueling operations |
|
29 Jan 99 |
Vostok Station closes |
|
03 Feb 99 |
Siple Dome closes |
|
05 Feb.99 |
Marble Point closes |
|
05 Feb 99 |
M/V GREENWAVE arrives at McMurdo |
|
11 Feb 99 |
M/V GREENWAVE departs McMurdo |
|
12 Feb 99 |
NBP99-2 Transit begins to Punta Arenas and study in the timing of ice sheet grounding
and retreat (Anderson) |
|
17 Feb 99 |
South Pole Station closes |
|
22 Feb 99 |
109th AW departs McMurdo |
|
22 Feb 99 |
McMurdo Station closes via LC130 |
|
22 Feb 99 |
Final LC-130 turnaround at McMurdo |
|
22 Feb 99 |
LMG99-2 Deception Island time-series study and mapping |
|
21 Mar 99 |
LMG99-3 Weddell Sea, King George Island – support of
Sidell/Detrich and
Anderson |
