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2 January 2015 Departing to the South Pole

The IceCube Neutrino South Pole Observatory. Credit: IceCube Collaboration.

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Today, January 2nd, 2015, I will be departing to the South Pole. The adventure is about to begin! There has been meaningful media coverage about my Antarctica expedition in the last few days, and links will be posted soon. I will be doing two or possibly three webcasts between January 13 and January

31 December 2014 Some Final Thoughts

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Some Final Thoughts All members of G-063 are now either home, or on their way home... I've been putting off this journal telling you that I made it, partly because I don't want it to be over! I'll add a couple more posts soon that I didn't get a chance to finish... but for now, here are some of

Experiences of Lauren Watel During her PolarTREC to the Arctic

The Loretto Earth Network News e-pub newletter features a recap of Lauren Watel's expedition to Toolik Field Station. Access the online archive in the LEN News - Summer 2014, page 7.

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Un profesor boricua investigará en la Antártida

News outlets shared news of Armando Caussade's deployment to South Pole with the IceCube project. This article was reported in three outlets.

Profesor boricua realizará investigación en la Antártida
http://www.primerahora.com/noticias/puerto-rico/nota/profesorboricuarealizarainvestigacionenlaantartida-1056362/
http://www.primerahora.com/noticias/puerto-rico/nota/profesorpuertorriquenorealizarainvestigacionenlaantartida-1056362/

Un profesor boricua investigará en la Antártida
http://www.indicepr.com/noticias/2014/12/30/nova/34173/un-profesor-boricua-investigara-en-la-antartida/

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Un profesor puertorriqueño investigará en la Antártida sobre los neutrinos

Armando Caussade's expedition to South Pole received a media blitz just before deployment . This article (or shorter version of) appeared in twelve different news outlets in the United States and Mexico. News wires Un profesor puertorriqueño investigará en la Antártida sobre los neutrinos http://www.efe.com/efe/noticias/usa/puerto-rico/profesor-puertorriqueno-investigara-antartida-sobre-los-neutrinos/5/50034/2501289 ----- US / Mexico Un profesor puertorriqueño investigará en la Antártida sobre los neutrinos http://www.wveatv.com/2014/12/30/un-profesor-puertorriqueno-investigara-en-la-antartida-sobre-los-neutrinos/

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24 December 2014 Ant-ART-ica: Art on the Ice

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Metal Sculptures around McMurdo With another extra day to spare, since our flight to WAIS Divide had been cancelled again, Rachel invited me to join her on a walk around McMurdo to take pictures of metal sculptures that were scattered around the base. One of the things I like most about McMurdo is

Yamini Bala and a Global Meditation from Antarctica

Note: This event was not for our typical classroom-based education audience. WAIS Divide (West Antarctic Ice Sheet), where the Velvet Ice team conducted its research, has recently be found to be one of the most vulnerable areas of Antarctica to global climate change. If recent predictions hold true, major glaciers in WAIS could collapse within 100 years, triggering massive shifts

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23 December 2014 Gingerbread Wars

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With time to spare at McMurdo, while we continue to await our WAIS Divide flights, we are actively looking for things to do. Rachel caught wind of a Gingerbread House Competition taking place in the Galley on Sunday, and decided to enter. She asked me if I'd like to join her team, and, since I have

Clark Antarctic Series Part II Ship and Crew Life

This is part two of a small series following Parishville-Hopkinton Central School science teacher Glenn W. Clark’s involvement last winter in the National Science Foundation’s 2013-2014 Antarctic Research Consortium research trip to Eastern Antarctica. Since his return to the north country last spring, he has been educating the public about the excursion in a three piece presentation on science, expedition

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28 December 2014 PolarConnect event to be held next January

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I will be doing a live PolarConnect event, very likely in Spanish, sometime between January 10 and January 20. We still do no have an exact date and time since Internet access at the South Pole depends on satellite schedules that are posted 1-2 weeks befoerehand. But stay tuned, as I will be posting