Synonyms: 
Operation Ice Bridge
Ice Bridge
IceBridge
Operations IceBridge
Associated content: 
OIB
Sub-categories: 
OIB 2016, OIB 2017, OIB 2018, OIB Fall 2009, OIB Fall 2010, OIB Fall 2011, OIB Fall 2015, OIB Spring 2009, OIB Spring 2010, OIB Spring 2011, OIB spring 2015, OIB Summer 2019

The Feature 1: Unusual blue ice exposures next to and on a broad rock ridge, beneath a sharper ridgeline, Palmer Land

Pyramidal nunataks on the Dyer Plateau

Mt. Balfour, which splits the lower reaches Fleming Glacier, with tidewater glacier terminus in the foreground

OIB 11/18/16 Mission Daily Schedule

Friday, NOV 18
0700 Regular hotel breakfast hours
0900 Power On (and also a Facebook LIVE Event, see below for details)
1000 Flight Brief
1030 Aircraft door closes
1100 Take Off

OIB 11/17/16 Mission Daily Schedule

0600 - Early breakfast for ground-crew
0800 - Power On
0900 - Flight Brief
0930 - Aircraft door closes
1000 - Take Off

OIB 11/16/16 Mission Daily Schedule

Flight Canceled due to severe turbulence expected at target area and at PUQ airport at the return.

1800: Science/Weather brief at the Sky Bar

MCoRDS and snow radar data collection over a transition from grounded ice to the floating Abbott Ice Shelf, showing the change in bed echo intensity and the detailed layering of the near-surface

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