Some links, although I have not checked all of them recently. First, newer sites and blogs from 2019-present (updated September 2024):
 Palmer science sitreps from 1991 to date are now available on this Rutgers University site.
- Previously they'd been archived by the current 2024 LTER Palmer home page.
- Kim Bernard
- a professor at Oregon State University (OSU), has been leading a team studying the diet of juvenile krill, interestingly titled "the omnivore's dilemma." This link is to her 2019 winter blog, but there are tabs with reference to her previous work in Antarctic waters and at Palmer.
- Kirsten Steinke
- is a member of Kim Bernard's research team who also wintered in 2019. This is her blog which describes their krill research project and also plunges into what they were doing in their spare time.
- RUCOOL
- is the "Rutgers Center for Ocean Observing Leadership group. Their Antarctic projects began in the 2010-11 season--water sampling and measurements of properties such as acidification and CO2 absorption...using Zodiacs, larger vessels, and most interestingly, their gliders! Not all of the activities described on this site involve their Antarctic involvement...but check out the blog links!
- Jake Grondin
- was a 2018 winterover from Northeastern University, from Bill Detrich's lab. He's got some great descriptions and photos of their science project as well as of what they do when they don't work!
- Kevin Moore
- was the 2018 winter systems administrator, and he's lived in Boulder for longer than I have! This is his first time in Antarctica, and he's been covering everything with lots of details and photos, in a blog he calls "Antarctica? Seriously."
- Maggie and Chuck Amsler
- led one of their largest lab groups to spend one of their longest times at Palmer, between February and May 2018, studying shallow water algae and invertebrates. Many many great blog posts! Under the "Expeditions" tab are links to blogs from their 2013, 2010, and 2007 ventures. Earlier, there was UAB in Antarctica 2004. Maggie's 2 March 2004 diary entry on the Arthur Harbor glacier calving to create what would later be named Amsler Island is of particular interest.
2017 and older sites/links; roughly from newer to older...
- The Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS)
- a component of the College of William & Mary, has periodically conducted research at Palmer as part of the LTER network; this page and its links describe some of their research programs. Note that Kim Bernard, a professor at Oregon State University who wintered at Palmer Station in 2019, was part of a 2012-13 VIMS research team.
- Drew Spacht
- from Erie, PA, ws working at Palmer between December 2016 and April 2017 as part of the latest studies on how the Antarctic midge survives the Antarctic winter. This link is to a March goerie.com news article. The project also has this outreach blog (archive site) with a few December and January preparatory posts.
- Becky Ball
- from Arizona State University, made her most recent trip to the Antarctic Peninsula in 2015-16 as principal investigator on a "polar soils" (to keep it simple) project. Much of their work was aboard the LMG,, but they did spend time at Palmer Station and also visited Elephant Island, including the site of Shackleton's stay there 100 years ago. On earlier ventures she spent time at Rothera, as well as in the Dry Valleys.
- Paula Dell
- is a science teacher from Chicago who visited Palmer in April-June 2011 as a part of the PolarTREC program. She was a member of a project studying the biology of Antarctic fishes...the principal investigators of which are Kristin O'Brien and the late Bruce Sidell. Paula has an extensive blog with photos covering the science activities on station and aboard the L.M. Gould, as well as glimpses of other science projects and station life.
- Pat Betteley
- is an Ohio educator who joined the Miami University (Ohio) 2010-11 project studying flies. Yes...the wingless fly belgica antarctica that can be found on the Antarctic Peninsula. She put together this interesting blog. They headed north on the LMG on 4 February 2011.
- Ian Robbins
- spent time at Palmer Station in January/February 2011 with the Cal Poly San Luis Obispo marine science group...they operated "Autonomous Underwater Vehicles" (AUV) known as REMUS (Remote Environmental Monitoring Unit). The more recent blog pages describe 2011 and 2012 deployments to Palau.
- Fen Montaigne
- the author of the 2010 book Fraser's Penguins, blogged occasionally here. And here's another of his web sites about the book.
- Speaking of penguins...The Ocean Bytes blog
- by folks at the University of Delaware, has miscellaneous geeky stuff, research vessel information, space shuttle launch coverage, but if you go back far enough (or select the "Antarctica" tagged posts) there are...videos of the penguin research...coverage of the AUV mentioned above, and video documentation of one of the new crevasses that are restricting glacier access.
- Keith Reimink
- was the 2010 w/o cook...one of several 2009 (or earlier) Polies to venture to the Peninsula side of the continent. Lots of pictures of the trip, the station, food...
- Neal Scheibe
- was the science tech at Pole for 2006 and 2007...I assumed I'd meet him at Pole for the 2008 winter, but for 2008 through 2012 he wintered at Palmer Station (we did eventually meet...in Denver (!) This blog runs up through his 2014 Pole winter. He's now working mostly as a science coordinator out of NSF's Arlington office, but he has gotten back to the ice more recently. He's got a great blog style, and did I mention that he's tall?
- travelinwiththerev
- happens to be Craig Bell, one of the UT types I met when I first got to Pole in February 2008. He left at the end of the summer, but worked in Denver, and was at Palmer for the first part of the 2009 winter. As of early 2013 he and his wife Renee Ricketts Schweitzer were still working for PAE at the American embassy in Moscow...in 2014 Craig wintered at Palmer. He and Renee now live in an amazing house in a rural area west of Oklahoma City...but Craig travels frequently around the world with his job supporting US Embassies.
- vagabumming
- is really Will Brubaker, a friend and good guy who was one of my fellow 2008 Pole winterovers. He was at Palmer for more of the 2009 winter, scroll back on this blog for good stuff and photos. Since then he's married Cate, and they've spent time in Taiwan, Peru, the sandpit, Panama, doing a drive through Central and South America...and now they're in Hilo, Hawaii. The vagabumming blog is gone, but here's their blog about their pan-American travels!
- Amber Bates
- was the winter 2008 lab tech, she stayed around until April 2009. She had some excellent photos around station...and of her subsequent travels until she ended up on Kwaj with David in October 2010. Alas, gone.
- Seren Thompson
- was around for the 2007-08 summer. Several great things to recommend on his blog--a great collection of aerial photographs taken by aircraft from the HMS Endurance...and a visit to one of those little known field sites that I too did get to see once--Copacabana. Oh, the older portion of his blog is here.
- Dan Grossman
- A WBUR Boston Public Radio reporter visited Palmer in the 2002-03 summer. This site features many photo galleries, journal entries, videos, and an excellent narrated virtual tour.
- Bill Wechter
- This is an archive of his Hero Ship Tours page from when he had that vessel docked in Newport, Oregon in the mid-2000s.
- HERO!
- My Hero pages are here.
- The Bosun's Watch!
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(archive site) was a UK site devoted to commercial fishing trawlers, but this page on the Hero is based on her trawling heritage. Excellent small pictures of Hero in the Antarctic (and aground in Umpqua harbor...)!
- Allen Cull (archive site)
- wintered in 1979, and in addition to his photo collection he's amassed the entire year's sitreps as well as the PSBWFPWL (well, see the web site!) Great historical stuff!
- Dave Gallas
- a longtime friend who wintered at Palmer in 1989...in 2005-07 he was working in Baghdad, and since then at Bagram Air Base in Kabul. He published some of his old diaries. Of special interest is his detailed on-the-spot account of the Bahia Paraiso debacle.
- Natalie Harr
- is a first-grade teacher from Portage County in northeastern Ohio. In 2011-12 she was the latest educator to join Dr. Richard Lee's team from Miami University (Ohio) on his project to study the largest entirely terrestrial animal in the Antarctic--the wingless midge (!) This link includes team diaries from later (2016 and 2017) and earlier trips in 2004-05 (Luke Sandro), 2005-06 (Marianne Kaput and Giancarlo Lopez-Martinez) and other info can also be found here.
- 2018-19 USAP Science Summary
- , from the USAP web site, with links to previous years and research vessel projects. There is also a link to the older editions, back to 2000-01. And here is the USAP marine science home page.
- R/V Polar Duke farewell tribute
- with detailed history, sea stories, photos and more.
- John Lohr
- was the radio officer on Hero from 1974-78; this is his page (with many pictures) describing his job and how he got it. He also had a slide show and commentary on Hero and a voyage to South Georgia. Alas, the slides are no longer available online.
- The Stanford VLF group
- has been listening to whistlers from Clean Air since 1978. This page includes graphics, detailed links to data, and trip reports from students who have been down on the annual maintenance visits over the last few years, back to 1998...alas, the trip reports seem to have disappeared.
- Boating maps...
- That clickable map from Marc Pomeroy. Of course, with the new RHIBs the boating limits have been significantly expanded since he created this.
- Captain Nathaniel B. Palmer's historic house
- in Stonington, Connecticut, was visited in 2007 by Maggie Amsler and members of her research team. You can visit as well.
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