Author Archives: Jean DeMerit

IceCube Lab backlit by low green auroras, with Milky Way overhead.
Week 28 at the Pole

Lighter days are coming, but last week there were still opportunities to take pictures outside [...]

View of Mt. Everest, with group photo of three people in inset.
Week 27 at the Pole

There wasn’t a whole lot happening at the South Pole station last week, which gave [...]

Three galley staff posing behind table set up with brunch food.
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 [...]

A Scott tent pitched on the icy plateau.
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 [...]

Close-up of super blood moon.
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 [...]