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 [...]