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Journal entry from Hamilton's Antarctica 2001 research expedition: We never did get our blue sky yesterday. The clouds settled back in and most of the day was a bright overcast.

Journal entry from Hamilton's Antarctica 2001 research expedition: We made it into Lester Cove around 11:30 this morning ...the fog and clouds of early morning lifted enough for the crew to confidently move the ship through the ice to the head of Lester Cove.

Journal entry from Hamilton's Antarctica 2001 research expedition: Anna Rubin, Colgate University, and Emily Backman, Hamilton College, collecting small samples from the Smith McIntyre grab sampler. Float coats and hardhats are the dress code for working on deck.

Journal entry from Hamilton's Antarctica 2001 research expedition: Today has the potential to be a beautiful day. An early light snow has ended, high clouds are thinning overhead and the clouds around the mountains are breaking up.

Journal entry from Hamilton's Antarctica 2001 research expedition: We spent most of the evening mapping the sea floor in the Erebus and Terror Gulf while waiting for a large storm to pass north of us.

Journal entry from Hamilton's Antarctica 2001 research expedition: When I came on watch at midnight seas were calm, winds light and a light snow was falling.

Journal entry from Hamilton's Antarctica 2001 research expedition: The ship turned due east and then north to begin a long transit back past Seymour Island, across Erebus and Terror Gulf, through the Antarctic Sound and then southwest along the Antarctic Peninsula to Hughes Bay.

Journal entry from Hamilton's Antarctica 2001 research expedition: 7.5 degrees C; a heat wave! Robertson Island at the eastern edge of the Seal Nunataks provides the setting for today's work.

Journal entry from Hamilton's Antarctica 2001 research expedition:Around 2 a.m. this morning, we started our subsurface sampling, following some basic mapping of the sea floor topography to locate sampling sites.

Journal entry from Hamilton's Antarctica 2001 research expedition: After leaving a group of researchers on Seymour Island the Nathaniel B. Palmer carrying the expedition sailed southwest to the Larsen B ice shelf. The sea in front of Larsen B is ice free and smooth as glass.