My name is Jenny Brower and I work in the Carpentry Shop at McMurdo Station, Antarctica. I was a 5th grade school teacher in Jerome, Idaho before deciding to go on an adventure to the Southern Hemisphere. I had worked during my summers for the Forest Service and had done some building projects in the past, so my experience with carpentry landed me a job in Antarctica.
The WATER DROP from the 7th graders at Sacred Heart School joined Jenny for a day of workThe Carpentry Shop (also known as the “Carp Shop”) is a great place to work. We build different items for the science groups and set up all of their camps in the deep field. The best part of my job is flying out to different parts of the continents to places that only a handful of people have ever visited to set up camps for science groups.
Would you be comfortable in here in the middle of Antarctica?This is my second season down in Antarctica, and this year I was given the job of “Sea Ice Patrol”. My job is to drive a vehicle called a Pisten Bully out to fuel up huts that are placed on the sea ice.
The WATER DROP from the 7th graders at Sacred Heart School in Saratoga jumped on the Pisten Bully.These huts are used by different science groups to dive under the ice to look for and gather marine life.
The WATER DROP from the 7th graders at Sacred Heart School is looking out the window of the hut. What do you think it sees?I also fuel up a hut at our “Happy Camper” site, which is used to train people how to camp/survive in Antarctica. If someone gets stranded in a bad storm or has a vehicle break down away from the station, it is good to know how to set up a tent, start the stoves, and keep alive in dangerous weather.
The WATER DROP tested the water to make sure it was warm enough on the stove. The WATER DROP had to go check the outhouse The WATER DROP is inspecting the outhouseThe day I fueled up the hut at Happy Camper, I took the water drop along with me. It drove around in the Pisten Bully, visited the hut, saw how water is melted out in the field, and went to the outhouse! The next day it worked with me in the shop making supports for tents we will build in the field.
The WATER DROP also met Diesel, another Carp worker. Jenny and the WATER DROP. Where do they go? What are Jenny and the WATER DROP making now?