What have I been doing? So far I have been pretty busy. The CosRay building is being decommissioned. It is fairly far away from the station and is difficut to maintain so they are shutting it down.…
This is a picture of the folks I'm working with on the CosRay Neutron Monitors at McMurdo Station, Antarctica. I don't know how to put them in order so I'll just introduce them from left to right.…
Ok remember what we are hunting for cosmic rays. For more on cosmic rays click here. But the short story is that cosmic rays are basically charged particles from outer space. Specifically we are…
There has been a bit of training necessary for PolarTREC to get me here. My guess is that the NSF and USAP aren't comfortable with just letting my absent-minded self wander around Antarctica…
My ice flight finally arrived!
Gotta go ... my ride is here.
Boarding an LC-130 is very different from a commercial plane. The LC-130 is an Air Force modified C-130 Hercules, basically it is a…
6AM Received a phone call that my Ice flight was delayed 4 hours to 12:30 PM ...11AM Checked out of hotel to prepare for the shuttle to the terminal... 11:15 AM Received word that the flight would be…
Fate and the weather have conspired against me once again. The weather over New Zealand calls for hail and there is snowfall predicted over McMurdo Station all day today. Either one of these right…
Today I woke up with my bags packed at 5AM. By 8AM I was at the USAP terminal having my bags weighed and checking in for a boarding pass for the transport plane to McMurdo Station. After and…
The USAP Logo on the Terminal Building.
Today I got to go to the United States Antarctic Program terminal to gear up. A process often referred to as the bag drag... because you drag a lot of bags…
I left my house in Saint Clair Shores around noon on Dec. 30, 2016. I finally arrived in my hotel in Chirstchurch, New Zealand at around 3 PM on Jan 1, 2017. There were some time zone shenanigans…
I leave for Antarctica this Friday so a lot of my time this week is going to be dedicated to getting packed. There are a lot of things that I need to bring. It's not like I can just run to the store…
Good News! I am finally PQ'd (physically qualified) for my trip to McMurdo Station! It turns out that the NSF wants to be pretty sure that you don't have any medical complications when you are in…
