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I am sitting in the second day of the OASIS meeting of scientists at UC Davis, California. We have 32 scientists from many different organizations in the United States, Canada, England, France and Germany discussing their data and results from their 3-month Arctic campaign. One of the things I

We are continuing to keep up a great pace on the IceTop DOMs (light sensors) and tanks. At this point, all the DOMs are in place for this year's schedule of IceTop, and most of the electronic interfaces are in place as well. We are filling the tanks rapidly and should easily be finished by the time

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 background radiation from space as well. But the other day I visited a site where the research is a

This will be short as my day started at 5:30 am before heading to the sea ice edge around 8:30 am. We finally arrived back at the lab after 9 pm, and it's almost 10 pm now....and I still have to eat dinner!! I'm hungry!!! But, it finally happened!!! PENGUINS!!!!! Up close and personal!!! Here's just

Mike, Collin, Yo, Chip, and I are working out of the McMurdo Station Crary Lab right now, while Heidi, Birgit and Christine are collecting water samples, ice cores and conducting tests from the Lake Fryxell Camp. We already have over 240L of water collected in 20L containers from the Cotton Glacier

"THANK YOU!" to all who joined the DOM team's first webinar today. It was so wonderful for us to hear your voices, read you questions, and share our experiences with you. Your participation made the early webinar time (6am in Antarctica) well worth it for the whole DOM team. I was very excited that

While out at "Beaker Point", David helped me film a tour of our home away from home...away from home! Because I've had a bit of time in, I've split the tour into segments, intended for you to watch at your leisure. I hope you'll sit back with a good cup of hot chocolate and enjoy! Just a warning

Everyone on the DOM team slept in a little today, since we did not get to sleep until well after one in the morning. Today, our plans to visit the Canada Stream for more sampling and to check on the glass slides Heidi left in the stream were thwarted by visits to Lake Fryxell Camp by a gaggle of