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Master's student Jenna Reindel absorbing her first look at Mt. Early volcano. She joined mountaineering guide Tim Burton and professors Dr. Kurt Panter and John Smellie on a trek to Antarctica to study long-dormant volcanoes.

TIM BURTON

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Graduate advisor Kurt Panter, researcher John Smellie, and graduate student Jenna Reindel take their first close up view of Mt. Early, bringing the safety gear required when leaving camp for the day.

TIM BURTON

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Jenna Reindel accumulated some frost in her hair while the team spent two hours packing up their field camp in the Transantarctic Mountains.

JOHN SMELLIE

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Mountaineering guide Tim Burton and graduate student Jenna Reindel on the slope of Mt. Early, enjoying peanut butter on crackers and hot soup.

JOHN SMELLIE

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Tim Burton, Kurt Panter and Jenna Reindel enjoying a lunch break on the slope of Sheridan Bluff.

JOHN SMELLIE

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Jenna Reindel examines a sample of rock from an ancient lava flow on a windy day at Sheridan Bluff.

TIM BURTON

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