Blogging from anywhere!

In 1996, we periodically updated a website with reports from our fieldwork on Nevado Sajama in Bolivia (6,542 m). The Inmarsat mini-M and laptop technology worked well, despite being cumbersome and requiring several additional steps by our Climate Center manager, Frank Keimig. For this trip, we will try to send at least brief updates via a much simpler system using SMS via our Iridium phone. The following was just entered directly onto this blog, prior to the editing above:  "Test of updates by satphone."