Well, I just wanted to share a few pictures with you. We have started doing our afternoon outings and things are getting really exciting. We visited the Arctic Consortium of the United States (ARCUS) main office -- where we had lunch -- and later on went to the University of Alaska's Museum of the North, here in Fairbanks. PolarTREC, of course, is managed by ARCUS.
Armando and Janet at the ARCUS main office.
ARCUS headquarters
Enjoying dinner at the Pump restaurant.
Wanted to add that temperatures have been between –18 °C and –34 °C (–0 °F and –30 °F) for like the whole week. That is easily tolerable, of course with the right clothing. Here you can see us with the ice polar bear at the University of Alaska, and a couple of hours later walking on top of a frozen lake.
Temperature: –11 °C (–24 °F)
Armando and Lisa Seff walking over a frozen lake.
Lastly, I am posting a picture of one of our mentors, Michelle Brown, at the Amundsen-Scott research station in the South Pole. This is exactly the place where I am headed next December together with the IceCube Neutrino Observatory team, headed by Dr. James Madsen of the University of Wisconsin at River Falls.
Michelle Brown points to the Geographic South Pole. This is the Geographic South Pole as measured in January of 2011. Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station, Antarctica. Photo by Andy Stillinger, Courtesy of Michelle Brown (PolarTREC 2011/2012), Courtesy of ARCUS
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