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The years of experience the IPF has gained handling logistics in Antarctica helps make the unloading of the ship go quickly and smoothly.

The IPF team hard at work unloading cargo from the ship!

Ratnakar Gadi from UC Irvine, IPF field guide Daniel Mercier and Nolwenn Chauché (who is in charge of hot water drilling activities) wait as the hot water drill makes it way through the King Baudoin Ice shelf so they can deploy a CDT device to measure salinity and temperature below the ice shelf.

Alain Hubert, Tim Grosrenaud and Eric Rignot performing CTD measurement at the edge of the ice shelf along King Baudouin Ice shelf (princess Ragnhild coast/Queen Maud land) for the NISAR project.

The convoy of Prinoths and sledges has arrived at the coast and will start unloading cargo from the ship.

Here's the new automatic weather station (AWS) tha was pre-assembled by Simon Steffen and installed by Alain Hubert, Tim Grosrenaud, and Eric Rignot and his team from UC Irvine at the edge of the King Baudouin Ice Shelf. It will monitor air temperature, humidity and other parameters that could affect how fast the ice shelf melts.

This is one of the drill holes the NISAR team from UC Irvine made on the King Baudoin Ice Shelf. A CDT device was lowered into the hole to monitor salinity and temperature of the ocean below the ice shelf as a function of depth.

The NISAR project drilled a few holes in the King Baudoin Ice Shelf with a hot water drill to get to the bottom of the ice shelf and 

Eric Rignot and his colleague from UC Irvine pose with the radar sledge they are using to get images of the King Baudoin Ice Shelf for the NISAR project. The radar sledge is equipped with solar panels IPF engineers affixed to the sledge to charge the batteries of the radar equipment.