This past field season, a team from Discovery Channel Canada visited the HMP Research Station and gathered material for several pieces to be aired on Daily Planet.

Three pieces are scheduled to run this week on Daily Planet (Canada only), featuring the EVA Walkback experiment (Sept. 11th), the NASA K-10 rovers from the Ames Research Center (Sept. 12th) and the telemedicine work being done at HMP (Sept. 13th).

Daily Planet can be seen on Discovery Channel Canada at 7pm and 11pm (Eastern). Note that due to the news-magazine style of the Daily Planet, breaking news and other events may cause changes to the original scheduling.

Also, anyone in Canada can watch these episodes online about a day following the original TV air date.

Posted by Nick WIlkinson at 12:44 PM | Permalink

On August 25th, John Schutt (HMP Base Camp Manager) was featured in an article in the New York Times for his distinguished service to the ANSMET (Antarctic Search for Meteorites) program. Earlier this month John was the recipient of the Meteoritical Society's Service Award for his work guiding scientists in the Antarctic over the past 25 field seasons, since 1980. Read the full article here.

Everyone at the Haughton-Mars Project would like to congratulate John on this most prestigious honor.

Posted by Nick WIlkinson at 10:40 PM | Permalink

The HMP-2007 field season has now officially come to a close. By all accounts, HMP-2007 was a great success highlighted by several significant achievements. The HMP management and operational personnel have all returned home from the Arctic now, and planning for HMP-2008 is already underway.

Continue reading "HMP Research Station Update - August 14" »

Posted by Nick WIlkinson at 3:11 PM | Permalink

I've returned to Resolute Bay to coordinate the preliminary end-of-season logistics and from what I've seen at the station, I'm happy to report that the HMP-2007 field season is going exceedingly well. Five weeks of continuously sunny weather has enabled all of the research teams to remain on schedule, and even get ahead of schedule in some cases. Most impressive however, is the hard work that everyone's been putting in to capitalize on the favourably dry conditions.

Continue reading "HMP Research Station Update - July 30" »

Posted by Nick WIlkinson at 8:15 PM | Permalink