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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. |