Washington University Antarctic team to install seismographs

A Washington University team checks out equipment they will be taking with them to unexplored regions of Antarctica after Thanksgiving. They hope to find clues about the earth beneath the ice as well as information about glaciers, mountains, ice streams and perhaps proof of global warming. Members are from left to right: Moira Pyle, doctoral student in earth and planetary sciences, Douglas Wiens, Ph.D., professor of earth and planetary sciences ahd head of the expedition, David Heeszel, graduate student in earth and planetary sciences, and Patrick Shore, a lecturer and computer specialist in earth and planetary sciences, who has accompanied Wiens on numerous different seismic expeditions. Not pictured is team member Michael Barkledge, also an earth and planetary sciences graduate student.