Supported by over 2,000 civilian contract employees and U.S. military personnel, researchers and special participants (like me) work at each of the U.S. Antarctic stations (McMurdo, Amundsen–Scott…
Most of us are familiar with Neutrons, the neutral particle that often resides in the nucleus of atoms. Those are the particles that the CosRay neutron detectors are investigating. They are liberated…
Photo by Tim Spuck.
My thoughts are with everyone down in McMurdo Station including PolarTREC teachers David Thesenga and Timothy Dwyer. Last night we learned of the tragic loss of Professor…
Why do we care about solar activity? Of course, solar activity is of interest to astronomers but it can also have major consequences on the Earth.
Credit: ESA and NASA/SOHO
For example, the…
The distribution of cosmic rays on the surface of the Earth is not uniform. So we want to study cosmic rays in a number of locations if we want to understand them. There are many facilities over the…
Particle interactions in the atmosphere. Courtesy of Jim Madsen University of Wisconsin-River Falls.
So why study neutrons? Where do they come from? For the most part this has to do with the sun.…
Just letting everyone know that I will be posting some details about my expedition to a facebook page https://www.facebook.com/ThumaPolarTREC , twitter feed https://twitter.com/schsphysics and my…
It has been a busy week. I have been doing some training for Antartica, here at the University of Wisconsin River Falls. I have learned a bit about neutron detectors. One important thing is that they…
What's All This Then?
The following video is meant to be a brief introduction to me and what I will be doing in the coming months. If you don't have time for a video the highlights are as follows:…
Still More Training
Wow. It has been crazy up here in scenic and historic Fairbanks, AK!
With content and technology training:
Lots of Learning ... Wish My Students Could See Me Now
Some hands-on…
Some More or Less Random Thoughts
As I sat in my Fairbanks hotel room this evening I was considering writing about the aurora borealis (the Northern Lights). I have, for the moment, decided against…
Upon arriving at the orientation for PolarTREC I have found myself quite humbled. There is a tremendous amount of effort being focused into providing me with the opportunity to go on an adventure…
