Connect your Classroom to Antarctica
Hear firsthand what it is like to live and work in one of the most extreme environments on Earth. Learn what people are doing at the South Pole to transform the ice into the biggest and strangest telescope in the world.
Learn about the wide range of people—cooks, pilots, and technicians of all sorts—needed to keep the National Science Foundation Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station running. Discover what the IceCube Collaboration is learning about the universe from neutrinos, invisible particles so hard to detect that they are called "ghost particles."
Webcasts: IceCube Neutrino Observatory
Join me from the South Pole for a live presentation about IceCube.
A hole drilled for a string of IceCube light detectors. Photo by Casey O'Hara (PolarTREC 2009/2010), Courtesy of ARCUS.
There are two options for webcasts discussing the IceCube Neutrino Observatory:
- Monday, January 9, 2017, 10:00am EST
- Thursday, January 19, 2017, 9:30am EST (with me!)
Note: times subject to satellite availability
Please fill out this form in advance to register
Webcasts: Antarctic Neutron Monitors
Fellow PolarTREC teacher Eric Thuma and researcher Jim Madsen will be hosting several webcasts to talk about the Antarctic Neutron Monitors.
The circuit board of the cosmic ray detector. Photo by Juan Botella (PolarTREC 2014), Courtesy of ARCUS.
There are three options of webcasts discussing the Antarctic Neutrino Monitors:
- Tuesday, January10, 2017, 1:30pm EST
- Tuesday, January 17, 2916, 1:30pm EST
- Friday, January 20, 1:30pm EST
Note: times subject to satellite availability
Please fill out this form in advance to register.
Follow along with Mr. Thuma's expedition including his daily journals here.