Author Archives: Jean DeMerit

Week 15 at the Pole

This is what the ICL porch looks like as it gets darker outside, bathed in [...]

Week 14 at the Pole

See anything? Well, there is something there, in this season's first photo of an aurora [...]

Week 13 at the Pole

The IceCube Laboratory (ICL) is home to a computer complex that collects and processes data [...]

Week 12 at the Pole

The darkness of night tells us that we’re in the Earth’s shadow. But who thinks [...]

Week 11 at the Pole

So many images from last week … where to begin? The IceCube winterovers captured quite [...]

Week 10 at the Pole

Surprise, surprise—a little creature snuck in to the South Pole station, presumably in the last [...]

Week 9 at the Pole

It’s a small community wintering over at the South Pole—they help each other out. When [...]

Week 8 at the Pole

What is this? And where would you find it at the South Pole station? It [...]

Week 7 at the Pole

At the South Pole, apparently there’s “cold” and then there’s “really cold.” IceCube winterover Dag’s [...]

Week 6 at the Pole

It’s not dark yet, but the temperatures have been dropping. They’re back to being lower [...]