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"Cloudy, windy and snow squalls with building seas" is the forecast for the Hamilton group as they head out of the Drake passage and make their way south toward Antarctica.

" ...when I came on duty at midnight we were passing through the Antarctic Sound at the tip of the Palmer Peninsula. A beautiful sunset occurred at midnight..." Read Dave Tewksbury's daily journal entries from Hamilton's Antarctica 2001 expedition.

The research vessel Nathaniel B. Palmer arrived off the coast of Seymour Island early on Dec. 9 but a large amount of pack ice that had been blown into the bay is presenting problems for the researchers.

Journal entry from Hamilton's Antarctica 2001 research expedition: Ice in the bay prevented going ashore on the north side of Seymour Island, and, after a long night of waiting to see if conditions would improve, the field group decided to establish camp on the south side of the island.

In December Associate Professor of English Catherine Kodat presented a paper titled, "'From viewers like you': Arts Patronage and the State of/in Ken Burns's Jazz" at the annual Modern Language Association conference in New Orleans.

Associate Professor of Philosophy Katheryn Doran gave an invited paper at Auburn University on December 7, 2001 called "The Consequences of Contingency."

Government Professor Cheng Li was featured on the China Forum,Sunday, Dec. 9, discussing China's Impending Leadership Change on WNVC TV. In addition, Li commented for BBC on China's political reform and in a Free Asia Radio broadcast on Shanghai's recently elected mayor.

Hamilton's antarctic expedition started with 36 hours of air travel to Punta Arenas, Chile. There they boarded the research vessel, RVIB Nathaniel B. Palmer--their destination an area off the Palmer Peninsula, Antarctica.

The Hamilton Antarctica 2001 Expedition passed through the Straits of Magellan and turned south along the east coast of Tierra del Fuego. Tierra del Fuego, "Land of Fire" was named for the many campfires seen by Magellan during his explorations between 1519 and 1522.

Government Professor Cheng Li gave a speech at the Naval Anaylsis Center in Washington, D.C. on Chinese leadership sucession on Dec. 3. More than 100 officials from various U.S. government agencies, as well as academics, attended the talk titled, "Poised to Take the Helm: Rising Stars and the Transistion to the Fourth Generation."