 So I haven't been doing too good a job writing a blog, so I thought I might try some video. Seeing it on the screen, it looks like it's having trouble with the color or the lighting. That's because I'm in a four-sided yellow tent wearing an orange jacket, and all likelihood. But anyway, we'll go start from the beginning. Chris McKay and Vladimir and Valeri and I boarded the Aleutian and flew down to Novo station. We stayed at the Antarctic Logistics Company, incorporated guest house called the Oasis Guest House, until November 13th. We organized some gear, but Ian and Dale had organized much of it before that. They arrived a little bit earlier. We loaded up trucks, their Toyota Hilux trucks that are adapted by an Icelandic company for use in Antarctica. So we sent the first load of three trucks and trailers, with Dale and Ian, to Lake Untrasee on November 12th. And on November 13th, we loaded up the trucks again. Ian and Dale drove the Skadoos, or snowmobiles, out to Lake Untrasee. And the rest of us loaded the three trucks, so we only used one trailer for gear and one for fuel, and drove out after them in case something happened, which of course nothing did. So the 13th, we spent the rest of the day setting up camp, lots of tents. And on the 14th, it was more setting up camps, setting up science tents, things like that. So we had great weather on the 14th, 15th, and 16th, and we started melting the dive holes, and we got that mostly melted. And the weather turned bad on November 20th, which was Sunday. And by bad, didn't mean cold, it wasn't too cold, but we had very gusty winds, and according to Dale, we had gusts up to 30 meters per second. So it'd be calm and beautiful and quiet, a little bit cloudy, sometimes sunny sometimes. Then you could start to hear the roar of the winds, and depending on where that roar was coming from, 10 seconds later, or sometimes a little longer, you'd have this blast of wind, a wall of wind coming at us. So there wasn't much sleeping that night. And then the next day, we still had windy weather, and it collapsed Dale's tent, which was also the dive tent. And so we sort of cleaned things up for him. And then today, it's still been a little bit blastery, but not nearly so bad. So we set up a new tent for Dale. It's the same type, it's a North Face dome tent. And but this time we rotated it so different parts facing into the wind, and it's a better site, so the tent's a little bit flatter. Besides Dale's tent, nothing much collapsed in the wind. We had to keep tying down tents, tightening up the ties and things like that. Some abraded loose, some just came loose. We lost a windscreen for one of this gadoos, and probably a couple little things that we haven't found yet, but in general, we've weathered the wind quite well. So the weather's getting better. We have a dive hole melted, and we're hoping that we can do the first diving tomorrow. On other science fronts, Vladimir and Valeri have been making great progress on their science. We drilled a hole through the ice above an oxic subbasin in Lake Country Sea, and they've been collecting water, filtering it. Vladimir is filtering water to look at the genetics of the bacteria in the pelagic biomass, and Valeri has done some incubation experiments for photosynthesis in situ in the water, as well as methane generation and methane oxidation in water from various steps. But those don't have to be in situ because the light doesn't matter. So we've done a couple light profiles. Chris has collected some samples for oxygen and hydrogen isotopes, and Ian has the DIC analyzer going, and we collected water yesterday for that in a profile, and he's measured those. The bulk of the water column only has 13 micromoles per liter. I think that's the units of DIC, so it's very low. So we have our first science results coming back, and Chris has been working on the meteorological data. So all's going well for our first week in camp. And I will try to do a better update, and we'll try the video logs since I'm not really writing much. So thanks for watching.