Who's Been on the Ice

Ray Woodruff was on the Ice during the 2005-06 and 2006-07 seasons. Ray is the Casper Field Office Chief for the USGS Wyoming Water Science Center. Ray oversees basic data collection activities in the eastern half of Wyoming. In some ways the work Ray and his staff do on a daily basis in Wyoming is very similar to the work Ray did in Antarctica. The ephemeral streams and shifting channels that characterize the dry valleys are not foreign to Ray. Many of Wyoming’s prairie streams function very similarly (though for different reasons) to those in Antarctica. Ray’s main responsibilities while “on the ice” were to upgrade instrumentation used to gage the Onyx River at two locations.

Kirk Miller was on the Ice during the 2005-06 season. Kirk is the Data Section Chief and Surface Water Specialist for the USGS Wyoming Water Science Center. He has been involved with various aspects of Wyoming’s surface water hydrology throughout his 19-year career with the USGS. While “on the ice” Kirk shared responsibility for the day-to-day operation of the McMurdo Dry Valleys Long-Term Ecological Research project’s streamgaging network. Operating and maintaining the array of scientific equipment necessary for accurate streamflow measurements in the harsh Antarctic environment was one of Kirks’ main challenges.

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