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Today I spend most of the day getting my equipment together for my field work in Antarctica and packing it that i can ship it to New Zealand . As usual, it was more than i thought and it took me several attempts to get it all packed. Well, no it is ready to be shipped to New Zealand from where i will fly to Antarctica.
I'm Anne Jungblut from the Botany Department. Join me as I head to Antarctica to study cyanobacterial diversity in ice-covered lakes of the Dry Valleys and Ross Island where already scientists on Scott's and Shakleton's expeditions made many discoveries.