Antarctica -- October-November 2010

Turret Point. I belive this is Karin giving a briefing just as we came on shore. I'm the centermost of the blue jackets.

I'm not sure anyone defined the difference between a lecture and a briefing On the ship, I thought of briefings as times where they described a certain place or certain type of animal or bird, to try to help us understand some specifc thing we would see in the next day or so. Lectures were about more general topics, such as geology, or the Antarctic Treaty, or the history of how sled dogs had been used in the Antarctic (and the one about sled dogs was, to me, perhaps the most interesting of all of them).

Briefings would touch on any special hazards in an area. In most instances, there would also be a very short breifing once on shore. This was because (for example) often the expedition team would not know in advance about what specific animals would be present (or their specific locations). Also, they sometimes would not know the exact landing location in advance. For example, the shape of beaches can change from year to year.

(30 Nov 2010)