Here at the south pole, many groups are doing scientific research on a wide variety of topics. IceCube is looking at neutrinos from space; there are several other research projects involving cosmic…
The sun was hidden behind clouds most of the day today. I had been hoping to get outside and take some photos of the area around the South Pole Station. But when weather like this happens, the…
"We are the morale committee at South Pole," says James Brown, South Pole Executive Chef and nine-year Pole veteran, about the mission of the South Pole Station galley. "Our goal is to provide good…
Yesterday was a breeze in terms of filling the IceTop tanks. Today was another story entirely! Everything seemed to go wrong.
The first minor issue came when we found that one of the IceTop tanks…
The season is ramping up for installation of the IceCube detector strings, and also for the deployment of the IceTop surface sensor tanks. Today was a big day in that we were able to fill our first…
I must give a shout out to Mrs. Ratliff's classes in South Carolina - they have been awesome at giving me ideas for experiments. They suggested the beard experiment (the south pole portion of which…
Going back in time a little bit... picture yourself in a place where the horizon is as flat as the sea, except brilliant white and frozen... and yet inside, it's toasty warm and the holidays are upon…
Things are different down here at the south pole. Temperatures well below freezing; sunlight 24 hours a day (this time of year at least); 10,000+ feet altitude; very dry air... hard work in these…
Last journal I was looking forward to snowmobile training! ohh yeahh! Oh well, it was just a few of us standing around a snowmobile while the trainer basically told us how not to wreck the engine or…
Yesterday I woke up to experience my first official day on the job. Monday, I had enough time to recover a bit, get plenty of water, and get a decent night's sleep. OK, down time is OVER!
Tuesday…
This morning, the sky was the clearest it had been while I'd been in McMurdo. The wind had died down, the snow had stopped falling, a perfect day to fly out! So, at 7:30 the IceCube group and I met…
The bright light of the Antarctic sun forced me to pull my goggles off my forehead and over my eyes. The main cabin of the C-17 had been fairly dim, and now the sun gleamed white off the stark Ross…
