Storybook plan.
This storybook plan is the authors research compiled to produce Beyond Tipping Point. The purpose of the plan is to provide the reader with access to exciting detail behind this novel. It can take the reader to distant places like Antarctica, a place where you can get lost in the fascination relating to the continent and the people who work and live there. This sets the scene for beginning of the novel then rapidly moves away from the Southern Ocean to London and then gradually back to the Southern Ocean as the plot unfolds.
You may not be able to put the book down, or the blog may entice your way, to explore the fascinating places visited as the plot unfolds. The novel no longer bound between the covers, you the reader are invited to explore, locations, people and experiences that you can find, imagine and or create; if you let your imagination roam between the book and the research.
Chapter 1
Halley Research Station.
Halley VI Research Station, Halley VI, Brunt Ice Shelf, Caird Coast Antarctica.
Halley Research Station the UK’s Antarctic base ( British Antarctic Survey, BAS) is an internationally important platform for global earth, atmospheric and space weather observation in a climate sensitive zone.
Operational since 2012, Halley VI is made up of a series of eight interlinked pods. Built on skis, the pods can be towed across the ice by specialist heavy vehicles. Being able to move the research station is vital because of its site on the Brunt Ice Shelf, which is constantly moving towards the Weddell Sea.
Halley sits on the 130 metre-thick Brunt Ice Shelf. The ice shelf flows slowly out onto the Weddell Sea, where chunks of ice ‘calve’ off as icebergs.
Working in the Polar Regions is challenging. The success of its science and operations depends on a wide range of people who are experts in many disciplines. Halley accommodates up to 70 staff during the summer (late December to early March) and has previously had 16 over-wintering staff or ‘winterers’. In January 2017, as a safety precaution, a decision was made to no longer winter staff at the station.
Temperatures at Halley rarely rise above 0°C although temperatures around -10°C are common on sunny summer days. Typical winter temperatures are below -20°C with extreme lows of around -55°C
Antarctica
Andrew Dyhin 