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Journal entry from Hamilton's Antarctica 2001 research expedition: Anna Rubin, Colgate University, and Emily Backman, Hamilton College, collecting small samples from the Smith McIntyre grab sampler. Float coats and hardhats are the dress code for working on deck.

Journal entry from Hamilton's Antarctica 2001 research expedition: Today has the potential to be a beautiful day. An early light snow has ended, high clouds are thinning overhead and the clouds around the mountains are breaking up.

Journal entry from Hamilton's Antarctica 2001 research expedition: We spent most of the evening mapping the sea floor in the Erebus and Terror Gulf while waiting for a large storm to pass north of us.

Journal entry from Hamilton's Antarctica 2001 research expedition: When I came on watch at midnight seas were calm, winds light and a light snow was falling.

Journal entry from Hamilton's Antarctica 2001 research expedition: The ship turned due east and then north to begin a long transit back past Seymour Island, across Erebus and Terror Gulf, through the Antarctic Sound and then southwest along the Antarctic Peninsula to Hughes Bay.

Journal entry from Hamilton's Antarctica 2001 research expedition: 7.5 degrees C; a heat wave! Robertson Island at the eastern edge of the Seal Nunataks provides the setting for today's work.

Journal entry from Hamilton's Antarctica 2001 research expedition:Around 2 a.m. this morning, we started our subsurface sampling, following some basic mapping of the sea floor topography to locate sampling sites.

Journal entry from Hamilton's Antarctica 2001 research expedition: After leaving a group of researchers on Seymour Island the Nathaniel B. Palmer carrying the expedition sailed southwest to the Larsen B ice shelf. The sea in front of Larsen B is ice free and smooth as glass.

Associate Professor of Government Philip Klinkner, comments on the election of African American James E. Brown to East Hampton, Conn. town council. Klinkner, who has researched the impact of race on American politics, said in communities that are overwhelmingly white, voters are more apt to put aside race to elect a minority whom they like and deem qualified...The reason is that in places such as East Hampton with such a small minority presence, he said, "there's no sense among residents that they are vying for control of the town."

The Hamilton expedition aboard the Nathaniel B. Palmer is heading into the Drake passage. This is one of the legs of their trip to Antarctica.