Author Archives: Jean DeMerit

Week 26 at the Pole

IceCube’s winterovers were busy last week. Although IceCube is a well-behaved detector, it nonetheless has [...]

Week 25 at the Pole

Josh Veitch-Michaelis, IceCube/NSF Let’s start with the food. Last week at the Pole, they were [...]

Week 24 at the Pole

Matthew Young, NSF Finally, midwinter has arrived!  Midwinter is widely celebrated across Antarctica, not just [...]

Week 23 at the Pole

Relatively quiet from the previous week has changed to relatively busy for last week at [...]

Week 22 at the Pole

Martin Wolf, IceCube/NSF A relatively quiet week it was, last week at the Pole. As [...]

Week 21 at the Pole

Last week (well, on May 26), there was a rare super blood moon event—the coinciding [...]

Week 20 at the Pole

Martin Wolf, IceCube/NSF It was relatively quiet last week at the Pole. There were auroras, [...]

Week 19 at the Pole

Martin Wolf, IceCube/NSF It’s night at the South Pole—dark skies all the time, no sunlight [...]

Week 18 at the Pole

Martin Wolf, IceCube/NSF Some people love to camp out in tents. But outside at the [...]

Week 17 at the Pole

The moon was out big time last week, and it was bright enough to allow [...]