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Everything packed!

Posted by Anne D Jungblut Dec 30, 2011

After having several days off over the Christmas days, it is now time to get organised. The list of things to pack is getting long and longer including equipment, clothing and paper work…

 

Here the beginning of a very long list:

 

Clothing:

thermal shirts

long johns

socks

long johns

thermal jumpers

fleeze jacket

goretex jacket

sorel boots

hiking boots

house shoes

running shoes

jeans

t-shirts

hats

gloves

neck gaiter

thin blue insulating gloves

sun glasses

sun lotion

woollen socks….. to be continued

 

 

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...  thick socks, thin socks, running socks and socks knitted by my aunty! ... followed by eather gloves, thick gloves, black gloves, thin  gloves, blue thermal insulating gloves, waterproof gloves and leather gloves...

 

 

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.... next are.... fleeze jacket, fleeze jumper, thermal shirts, long johns, balaclava, neck gaiter and hats

 

 

This is some of my equipment:

 

Sampling   equipment K081

60 ml ;   louer-lok syringes

cryovials 5 ml

50 ml falcon   tubes

15 ml falcon   tubes

cubitainers/carboy

sterile   filters 0.2 um pore size 47 mm ,

whirl packs

zip locks

spatula

forceps,   pointy

Forceps blunt   145mm pom 1 * 5 item

cable ties

Duck tape

Masking tape

Pens

Ruler

Garbage bags

Chopping board

gloves medium

gloves large

aluminium foil

Eppendorf   tubes 2.0 ml

Scissor

note book

sterivex, GV   0.22 um filter unit

blue tips

Parafilm

GPS

pH meter

1000-Pipette

100-Pipette

kids   microscope

Lysis buffer

RNAlater

Alcohol wipes

pH buffers

Cameras

 

 

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After a year of hard work in the lab, writing papers and going to conferences, it time to pack the bags for another trip to Antarctica! Watch out this space! I will soon post new updates on the coming trip in January!

 

The weather is not looking to bad so far: http://www.antarcticanz.govt.nz/

 

Meanwhile, the Antarctic Heritage Trust people are posting regularly about their work down South: http://www.nhm.ac.uk/natureplus/community/antarctic-conservation/blog

Anne D Jungblut

Anne D Jungblut

Member since: Sep 2, 2010

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.

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