Hello. This is the homepage of the UCSD part of the HIREGS IV balloon campaign, which is currently at Williams (Willy) Field in Antarctica. The head of the team down here is Mike Pelling. There is also a rather dated science writeup on the instrument and project. I'm going to try to update this regularly with pictures and information so check back periodically.

• Lots of pictures

• A Nice Map Of Antarctica

• Steve "Steve" Boggs
• Wayne "Steve" Coburn with my new friend
• Marsha "Steve" Colby
• Fred "Steve" Duttweiler
• Steve "Steve" McBride
• Mike "Steve" Pelling
• Henry "Steve" Primbsch
• Said "Steve" Slassi
• Zack
  
• Standing By The Gondola
• Everyone except me because Im behind the camera

• Steven Peterzen
• Dave Sullivan

• Tim Coffey

• The HIREGS Instrument
• Another View
• The Gondola Control Unit (GCU) with the purple PCU and batteries
• The Electronics Bay with the card cages installed
• The Electronics Bay now the card cages are stowed and ready for flight
• The Rotor waiting to be installed
• The Rotor with the gondola hanging from it
  
• Hard At Work
• Installing Card Cages
• Mike Changing The Instrument's Oil
• Where I Spend My Days
• Me getting ready to take 'HackSaw Molly' out for a spin
• Me heading out to the launch pad on a ski-doo
  
• The NSBF SIP

• The New Willy Balloon Barn before the runway moved
• The Barn after the Herc's returned
• Inside The Barn
• Our Work Area
• The Willy Galley
• Inside The Galley now decorated for the holidays
• The NSBF Lounge
• The Emergency Berthing Room
• Our Old Generator Generator that blew up bunch of our equipment one night
• Its Replacement
• The Long Drop yes, it's outside
  
• My first attempt at a panoramic picture
• My second one (This time including Mt. Erebus)
• Mt. Erebus Ross Island's active volcano erupting
• Mt Discovery
• Black Island
• White Island
• A View Of The Permanent Ice and the incredible Antarctic sky
• A Skua
• Another Skua

• Dorm Building 209
• More Dorm Buildings
• The Crary Lab
• The Coffee House/Wine Bar
• The Mechanical Equipment Center with Ob Hill in the background
• The HeliPad
• The Metaphysical Pole

• The Launch Vehicle
• The Launch Spool (yawn)
• A Forklift
• A Spryte
• A Snow Mobile now Im just itching to go somewhere
• The Van We Used To Drive To Work but is now at the South Pole (without me, sniff sniff)
• Out Second Van thats now dead
• Our Newest Van
• A Dead Cat

• C-130's Lined Up On The Snow
• The Control Tower

• National Scientific Balloon Facility in wonderful Palestine Texas
• NASA Wallops Scientific Balloons Program
• UCSD HIREGS 3 Page Now really old and stale
• Center for Astrophysics and Space Sciences CASS is Mother, CASS is Father
• Steve McBride's Balloon Page
• UCB's HIREGS Homepage
• meer instruments
• Dymocks Flyer