II\. Expedition Dates

Section II of the Modifications of Activities Planned for 2001-2002
lists the actual dates of significant events occurring\
during this time period.

# Significant Dates of Expeditions

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  [Date]{.underline}   [Activity]{.underline}
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  01 Apr 01            NBP01-2 Late Cretaceous and Cenozoic reconstructions of
                       the\
                       Southwest Pacific (Stock)

  20 Apr 01            LMG01-4 Livingston Island Field Camp closing (Hall) and
                       Southern\
                       Ocean Global Ocean Ecosystem Dynamics cruise (SO-GLOBEC)\
                       (Fraser, Hallam, Harvey, Torres, Vernet, Zhou,)

  23 Apr 01            NBP01-3 SO-GLOBEC (Beardsley, Fanning, Hildebrand,
                       Hofmann,\
                       Ribic, Vernet, Wiebe)

  11 Jun 01            LMG01-5 Structure, Function and Expression of Tubulins,
                       Globins, and\
                       Microtubule-Dependent Motors from Cold-Adapted Antarctic
                       Fishes &\
                       Proteins of Oxygen-Binding & Energy Metabolism in Muscles
                       of\
                       Antarctic Fishes (Detrich, Sidell)

  21 Jul 01            NBP01-4 SO-GLOBEC (Beardsley, Fanning, Fritsen, Hallam,\
                       Hildebrand, Hofmann, Padman, Pwell, Ribic, Vernet, Wiebe,
                       Zhou)

  21 Jul 01            LMG01-6 SO-GLOBEC (Costa, Fraser, Fritsen, Harvey,
                       Martinson,\
                       Ross)

  20 Aug 01            First flight to McMurdo Station for Winfly operations (1
                       of 5)

  1 Sep 01             LMG01-7 LMG Maintenance Period and Acoustic Doppler
                       Current\
                       Profiler Sea Trials

  7 Sep 01             NBP01-5 Long-Term Ecological Research Project (Winter
                       Cruise)\
                       (Fraser, Karl, Martinson, Quetin/Ross, Ray Smith, Vernet)

  20 Sep 01            LMG01-8 Palmer Station support cruise #1

  02 Oct 01            First C-141 mission to McMurdo Station during Ice Runway
                       period (1 of\
                       18); McMurdo Station commenced summer operations

  03 Oct 01            First C-17 mission to McMurdo Station of the season (1 of
                       5)

  7 Oct 01             LMG01-8A Penguin-Krill-Ice Interactions: The Impact of
                       Environmental\
                       Variability on Penguin Demography at Copacabana Field
                       Camp\
                       (Trivelpiece)

  8 Oct 01             Lake Bonney field camp opens

  08 Oct 01            Marble Point opens

  11 Oct 01            Pieter J. Lenie Field Station (Copacabana) opens

  11 Oct 01            Lake Hoare field camp opens

  11 Oct 01            F6 field camp opens

  12 Oct 01            Lake Fryxell field camp opens

  19 Oct 01            Four (4) 109^th^ AW LC-130's arrive McMurdo Station to
                       start on-continent\
                       missions

  24 Oct 01            South Pole Station begins summer operations

  25 Oct 01            Siple Dome field camp opens

  27 Oct 01            LMG01-8B Palmer Station support cruise #2

  01 Nov 01            Byrd Surface Camp opens

  03 Nov 01            Onset D field camp opens

  05 Nov 01            109^th^ AW brings a fifth LC-130 to McMurdo Station

  05 Nov 01            Odell Glacier field camp opens

  9 Nov 01             NBP01-6 Acquisition and Operation of Broadband
                       Seismograph\
                       Equipment at Chilean Bases in the Antarctic Peninsula
                       Region (Wiens);\
                       CORC-Arches (Visbeck); Open Cape Sherriff Field Camp

  12 Nov 01            C-130 flights to McMurdo Station operated by Royal New
                       Zealand Air\
                       Force began (1 of 15).

  13 Nov 01            LMG Maintenance Period at Punta Arenas, Chile

  14 Nov 01            Tamseis field camp opens

  15 Nov 01            Cape Sherriff field camp opens

  16 Nov 01            Tamesis field camp opens

  2 Dec 01             LMG01-9 Biogeography of the Antarctic Benthos (Scheltema)
                       &\
                       Dynamics of Predator-Prey Behavior in the Antarctic Ocean
                       &\
                       Dispersal of Planktonic Invertebrate Larvae (Veit)

  5 Dec 01             NBP01-07 Global Climate Change and the Evolutionary
                       Ecology of\
                       Antarctic Mollusks in the Late Eocene (Aronson) &
                       Development of a\
                       Luminescence Dating Capability for Antarctic Glaciomarine
                       Sediments:\
                       Tests of Signal Zeroing at the Antarctic Peninsula
                       (Berger)

  08 Dec 01            Transfer flight operations from Sea Ice Runway to Williams
                       Field\
                       Skiway and Pegasus Blue Ice Runway

  10 Dec 01            The first of 11 C-130 missions to McMurdo Station operated
                       by the 50^th\
                       ^ EA Squadron, Little Rock, Arkansas began.

  19 Dec 01            Tamseis field camp closes

  24 Dec 01            US Coast Guard Icebreaker *Polar Star* arrives at the ice
                       edge

  02 Jan 02            LMG02-1 Long-Term Study of the Antarctic Marine Ecosystem:
                       An\
                       Ice-Dominated Environment (LTER)(Fraser, Vernet,
                       Martinson\
                       Quetin, Smith, Karl)

  05 Jan 02            US Coast Guard Icebreaker *Polar Sea* arrives at the ice
                       edge

  10 Jan 02            Byrd Surface Camp closes

  18 Jan 02            NBP02-1 Late Pleistocene to Holocene Glacial History of
                       West\
                       Antarctica

  22 Jan 02            Onset D field camp closes

  22 Jan 02            *M/T Gus W. Darnell* (tanker) moored at McMurdo Station
                       ice pier and commenced station refueling operations

  26 Jan 02            Refueling operations completed; *M/T Gus W. Darnell*
                       departs McMurdo Station

  28 Jan 02            Siple Dome field camp closes

  29 Jan 02            First C-141 mission to McMurdo Station for redeployment (1
                       of 13)

  29 Jan 02            Odell Glacer camp closes

  04 Feb 02            Lake Fryxell camp closes

  02 Feb 02            *M/V Greenwave* arrives McMurdo Station ice pier, cargo
                       offload\
                       operations commence

  5 Feb 02             Lake Hoare camp closes

  06 Feb 02            LMG02-1A SO GLOBEC Mooring Cruise (PIs)

  06 Feb 02            Marble Point closes

  06 Feb 02            Lake Bonney field camp closes

  10 Feb 02            *M/V Greenwave* departs McMurdo Station ice pier, cargo\
                       operations complete

  10 Feb 02            US Coast Guard icebreaker *Polar Sea* departs the McMurdo
                       area

  13 Feb 02            US Coast Guard icebreaker *Polar Star* departs the McMurdo
                       area

  11 Feb 02            F6 camp closes

  15 Feb 02            Winter Operation commence at South Pole Station

  15 Feb 02            First C-17 mission to McMurdo Station for redeployment (1
                       of 2)

  17 Feb 02            Final C-17 turnaround mission at McMurdo Station

  19 Feb 02            Final C-141 turnaround mission at McMurdo Station

  20 Feb 02            109th AW departs McMurdo Station

  20 Feb 02            Cape Shirreff Field Camp closes

  22 Feb 02            McMurdo Station commences winter-over operations

  01 Mar 02            Pieter J. Lenie Field Station (\"Copacabana\") closes

  05 Mar 02            NBP02-1A Open Period

  07 Mar 02            LMG02-1B Palmer Station Shuttle & Mooring Recovery (Rob
                       Dunbar)

  10 Mar 02            NBP02-1B Seismic System Test Cruise

  18 Mar 02            NBP02-1C Open Period Begins

  22 Mar 02            LMG02-2 Palmer Station Shuttle
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1.  LMG = *R/V Laurence M. Gould\
    *NBP *= R/V Nathaniel B. Palmer*