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Our flight lands at 5:30pm, and we are shuttled to the "Chalet," or the main office, where we sit through a series of 4 Powerpoint lectures, all filled with abbreviations, acronyms, and the names of buildings I don't know. After this, they hand out our keys and arrival packets. We have half an hour

In a recent email from my students, I was asked how I manage to make movies out here in the middle of nowhere. It made me think that I should explain more about our technology here! We have computers- quite a few of them, in fact. We each have a personal computer (which I use for movie-making and

We've now drilled over 50 holes in Lake Joyce! Everyday, we load up the drill sled and the science sled and go... somewhere. We usually have an idea of where we're headed, but without Sasha, we'd surely end up in the wrong place. One of Sasha's main jobs is to refine the map of Lake Joyce. This lake

This journal brought to you by Crosswind Elementary students: * Lily Parsons in 4th grade * Mary Addisyn Stubbs in 4th grade * Lilly Xu in 4th grade * Hudson Tupper in 1st grade * Reid Hays in 1st grade * Olivia Erwin in 3rd grade * Aliya Ali in 3rd grade * Kayla Long in 2nd grade * Luke Cahill *

McMurdo or Bust! ## “Well, THAT was interesting!” I announced this to everyone and no one (since no one could hear me) upon returning to my seat from the ‘facilities.' As it happens, the facilities on a Hercules LC-130 (aka 'Herc') are not as luxurious as on commercial aircraft. But we’ll get

This journal is brought to you by… * Ms. Catina Robert’s 3rd grade class at Hawkins Mill Elementary * Nicole Taschner from West Virginia Crosswind Elementary Students: * Jordan Kamerzink * Samuel Derieg in the 2nd grade ## Meet McMurdo: Desalination Plant Have you ever wondered where all of the

Meet Greg, team veterinarian. ### About Greg #### Where are you from? I am from the ‘windy city’ – Chicago, IL. #### Where do you live now? I currently live in sunny Sausalito, CA. #### Where did you go to college? I received a B.S. in Biology from Humboldt State University, attended San Jose

It's happening. It's really happening. As the first of five flight segments takes off, there is only one thought in my mind. I can't believe I'm going to Antarctica! Antarctica?!? Antarctica. I've been surprisingly calm the past few days, but right now it's hitting me. I'm excited, nervous

The super-massive black hole that resides at the center of our Mily Way galaxy may be producing neutrinos, researchers say in a recent study published by "Physical Review D". Observations from high-energy astronomical telescopes such as the space-bound Chandra X-ray Observatory have been paired with

Visiting the WonderKids Over the past couple months I’ve gotten to work with some amazing kids from the USC WonderKids program. The afterschool program, offered at several schools around downtown Los Angeles, introduces kids to different science careers. I visited several schools to teach the