In January 2018, I journeyed to the South Pole to commission and calibrate the two new neutrino detecting stations I had helped build in Ohio. I spent about a month total –arriving on Jan 3 and finally leaving Feb 4.
The gallery below captures some of the highlights of this journey. Living on the southern-most continent was a wild experience. Talking about a detector in Antarctica–and sitting on the back of a snowmobile–are two totally different things! I am extremely proud of everything our team accomplished, which included bringing our full five-station detector array into operation, and taking an extensive suite of calibration data sets to help us understand our detectors.
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- My extreme cold weather (ECW) jacket.
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- The International Antarctic Center in Christchurch
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- Me, having just gotten off the plane in McMurdo.
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- Me, having just gotten off the plane in McMurdo.
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- The view flying over the Trans-Antarctic mountains on our way to the South Pole.
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- A photo of snow falling outside the “Chalet” in McMurdo station.
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- Me at the welcome sign to the South Pole station.
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- The South Pole Station (SPS) where we all live and work.
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- The science lab where we all worked.
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- Me outside the cerremonial South Pole marker.
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- Me at the geographic South Pole marker.
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- The geographic south pole marker.
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- My colleagues Eric Oberla and Abby Vieregg at the A4 site.
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- The Data Acquisition (DAQ) box for our fourth station.
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- The ARA drill, just after being decomissioned.
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- The ICL from the outside.
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- The port sign in McMurdo.
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- “Hut Point” in McMurdo.
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- A “helo” landing in McMurdo.
