Week 7 at the Pole

Martin Wolf, IceCube/NSF Well, now it’s official—the South Pole station has closed for the winter.  [...]

Departing summer personnel walking out to awaiting plane on the skiway at South Pole.
Week 6 at the Pole

It’s still light outside, but winter at the South Pole is fast approaching.  There were [...]

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WIPAC alum Carlos Argüelles is a 2021 Sloan Research Fellow

IceCube collaborator and Harvard physics professor Carlos A. Argüelles Delgado has been selected as a [...]

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Week 5 at the Pole

Last week at the Pole, the fuel arrived.  A lot of it!  It takes a [...]

Person in red parka shoveling snow outside the doors of a shipping container.
Week 4 at the Pole

If you want to take inventory of a shipping container’s contents, you have to get [...]

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Week 3 at the Pole

So much activity at the Pole last week. A game of dodgeball is just the [...]

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Welcome, Assistant Professor Ke Fang!

On January 1, astroparticle physicist Ke Fang joined WIPAC and the UW–Madison Physics Department as [...]

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Welcome, Assistant Professor Lu Lu!

On January 1, Professor Lu joined the Department of Physics and IceCube. Most recently, she [...]

Week 2 at the Pole

Martin Wolf, IceCube/NSF It doesn’t snow much at the South Pole but there is lots [...]

Week 1 at the Pole

The first full week of the year was a busy one!  So much going on… [...]