Author Archives: Jean DeMerit
Week 38 at the Pole
Flags serve an important purpose at the Pole, marking out routes between places for when [...]
Week 37 at the Pole
Up, up, and away. That’s a NOAA balloon launch shown in a time-lapse photo—pretty nice! [...]
Week 36 at the Pole
A new temperature record for 2016 was set at the Pole last week—a low of [...]
Week 35 at the Pole
One unique aspect of living at the Pole for a year is experiencing only one [...]
Week 34 at the Pole
Despite the encroaching twilight, this photo of a Scott tent near the South Pole marker [...]
Week 33 at the Pole
A full moon is doing just as good a job as the sun in lighting [...]
Week 32 at the Pole
The igloo—the prime attraction at the South Pole for the last few weeks—is no more. [...]
Week 31 at the Pole
The igloo from last week is finally finished. What began as an afternoon project ended [...]
Week 30 at the Pole
That’s not the IceCube Lab all frosted up in this photo but the ARO (Atmospheric [...]
Week 29 at the Pole
Station life was quiet at the South Pole last week, but not too quiet. They [...]