Baby, It's Cold Outside
“She played with the submission for several days after he left, fine-tuning the details.“You sure you want to send it in?” Beth asked during one of the sisters’ frequent phone conversations. “We went down to Antarctica in summer and our ship hit an ice shelf. If NSF announces the grants in mid-June as advertised, you’ll be returning to Palmer smack in the middle of their long, dark winter.”“I know.”“Better stock up on Dramamine. A winter crossing of the Drake Passage will be hell.”“I know,” Mia ...said again, groaning.“Personally, I think Brent’s worth a few bouts of nausea. Just don’t ask me to go with you. One trip to the ice is enough for me.”“It probably won’t happen. With funding cuts and tight budgets, Brent says the grants are tough to come by.”Tough, but not impossible.As advertised, the grants were announced in June. Five weeks later Mia found herself aboard the Laurence M. Gould research ship along with two replacement cooks, a waste management specialist and a five-person research team from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.The deck rolled under her feet for almost the entire crossing.MoreLess
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