Yearly Archives: 2019

Week 49 at the Pole

Why are the winterovers playing chess out on the ice? The answer might just be [...]

Project update: CHIPS detector successfully deployed in Minnesota lake

CHIPS, the CHerenkov Detectors in Mine Pits experiment, successfully deployed their detector in a flooded [...]

Week 48 at the Pole

Last week, long-awaited cargo arrived, and just as exciting, the South Pole traverse also showed [...]

Week 47 at the Pole

IceCube was running smoothly last week. But it hasn’t been such smooth sailing this year [...]

Week 46 at the Pole

Since it’s summer at the Pole, more people are arriving than leaving. However, last week [...]

Week 45 at the Pole

A plane landing in daylight means summer season and new arrivals at the South Pole. [...]

Meet Jocelyn Argueta, our 2019 PolarTREC educator

IceCube’s South Pole crew will have another pair of helping hands (and flippers) this summer [...]

SDSC, WIPAC Conduct GPU Cloudburst Experiment

The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC), an Organized Research Unit of UC San Diego; and [...]

Week 44 at the Pole

Two fresh faces have arrived at the Pole—IceCube’s next winterovers, John Hardin and Yuya Makino, [...]

Meet Shaun O’Boyle: Photographer of Antarctica

American photographer Shaun O’Boyle is about to embark on his third Antarctic expedition. His unique [...]