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- June 24, 2009
- Interview: Living it up at the South Pole: Vladimir Papitashvili has spent his working life in the Earth's most frigid places. But today, as head scientist at the US's new "station-on-legs" at the South Pole, he spends his days in comparative luxury. As Antarctic midwinter approaches, he tells Anil Ananthaswamy about his adventures and how he helped remove an appendix on the Antarctic ice sheet
- Jerri FitzGerald, Who Treated Herself at South Pole, Dies at 57: Jerri Nielsen FitzGerald, a doctor who treated herself for breast cancer for months while stationed at the South Pole in 1999 and then when the weather thawed a bit was flown out in a daring rescue mission, died Tuesday at her home in Southwick, Mass. She was 57.
- June 19, 2009
- June 18, 2009
- So You Want My Job: Antarctic Driller/Researcher: Today we feature a man who took a job thousands of miles away from home, and the ordinary. Steve Faulkner spent 5 weeks at the bottom of the world, the South Pole, for one super cool science project.
- May 17, 2009
- Trapping space ghosts: Born of exploding stars and violent cosmic collisions, neutrinos streak through space -- and planets -- at the speed of light.
- May 3, 2009
- The muon shadow of the Moon: Astronomers typically use photons of some sort to figure out what's happening up there. Sure, some astronomers look for cosmic rays (which are not rays but in fact charged particles like protons), and eventually, gravitational waves are going to be important.
- March 10, 2009
- GigaPan View - Zoom In To IceCube: On January 4, 2009, six ski teams from Norway and the United Kingdom began a 483-mile race across Antarctica's frigid, high, dry plain from Russia's Novolazarovskaya Base to America's Amundsen Scott Research Station at the South Pole. Here we see their camp at the South Pole as their plane waits to take the earliest finishers back to Novo. The support team, with their trucks and tents, will wait for the rest of the ski teams to reach the Pole.
- March 9, 2009
- 5th Annual Polar Technology Conference to be hosted at IceCube: Following the tradition established by Stanford University and SRI International, the 5th annual Polar Technology Conference will be hosted by the IceCube Research Center of the University of Wisconsin-Madison on 16th (Thu) and 17th (Fri) of April 2009 . The primary purpose of this conference is to bring together polar scientists & technology developers in a forum to exchange information on research system operational needs and technology solutions that have been successful in polar environments.
- March 5, 2009
- Symmetrybreaking - IceCube season completed with record result: Nineteen and fifty-nine: taken together these numbers give the year DESY was founded. They will be with us through all this anniversary year. But they also play a special role in the just-finished season of the Antarctic neutrino telescope IceCube: 19 IceCube strings have been deployed this Antarctic summer-as many as ever before-propelling the total number of strings to 59.
- March 1, 2009
- Outside teachers train in Fairbanks for Antarctic trips: A group of high school science and math teachers who could help unlock the secrets of the universe were in Fairbanks last week. The five teachers, who come from all over the Lower 48 as part of the Knowles Science Teaching Foundation, were training for the construction of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory, a telescope located at the South Pole that will be made out of ice more than a kilometer deep.
- February 25, 2009
- IceCube building goals exceeded at South Pole: The observatory is an enormous telescope designed to capture evidence of elusive subatomic particles called neutrinos released by distant cosmic events like exploding stars. Built directly into the ice covering Antarctica, IceCube uses the Earth to filter out lower-energy particles and focus instead on the highest energy neutrinos that carry information about supernovas, dark matter, gamma-ray bursts and other exotic cosmological mysteries.
- February 19, 2009
- Bangor Daily News: Neutrino Work Breaks New Ground: Just across the runway from me sits a cluster of red buildings. Their forms are a bright series of dots against the stark white background of the Polar Plateau. These buildings are the Ice Cube drill camp - an under-ice neutrino-detecting project, one of the most important science projects going on at South Pole Station today. "OK, explain this one to me again," I ask one of the Ice Cube scientists as we wait in line for dinner in the galley. "What exactly is a neutrino?"
- February 17, 2009
- February 8, 2009
- South Pole Weekly Report: Week ending February 8: The current IceCube population stands at 13 and this is the final Construction Report for the 2008-09 on-ice season. All IceCube personnel (except our two winterovers of course) are scheduled to leave on/before Friday, Feb 13th.Two of the three main generators require rear seal replacements.
- February 1, 2009
- South Pole Weekly Report: Week ending February 1: The current IceCube population stands at 35. The Seasonal Equipment Site (Drill Camp) was relocated to its 2009/2010 season location. All systems were drained/flushed, dismantled, and winterized. Equipment repair and inventory has been completed. Drillers leave the station early next week.
- January 25, 2009
- South Pole Weekly Report: Week ending January 25: The current IceCube population stands at 49. The population will ramp down next week as drillers/deployers start to leave early. Drilling and string installations were completed this week with the addition of strings 37, 26, and 17.
- January 18, 2009
- South Pole Weekly Report: Week ending January 18: The current IceCube population stands at 47. String numbers 2 and 83 (1st Deep Core String) were added to the IceCube array this week for a total of 16 deployed this season. Drilling of the 17th hole (hole 37) was completed, SPATS pinging was accomplished, and string installation was well underway as of Sunday evening (January 18).
- January 14, 2009
- January 11, 2009
- South Pole Weekly Report: Week ending January 11: The current IceCube population stands at 48. String numbers 4, 10, and 3 were added to the IceCube array this week for a total of 14 deployed this season. Drilling of the 15th hole (2nd hole) was started early morning on Sunday (11th), after some minor "hiccups" things have settled and reaming continues. The 17th cable is on-site with cables 18 & 19 scheduled to arrive soon.
- January 4, 2009
- South Pole Weekly Report, January 4, 2009: The current IceCube population stands at 52. Drilling of the 12th hole of the season has been started at location four. The week started with the drilling of hole 5 (the 10th hole of the season) on Sunday, December 28 at approximately 10:30 am, finishing at 6:30 pm on December 29 and ended with the start of drilling of the 12th hole of the season on the morning of Sunday, January 4.
- December 28, 2008
- South Pole Weekly Report: Week ending December 28: With one departure this week, the current IceCube population stands at 49. String numbers 6 and 12 were added to the IceCube array this week for a total of 9 deployed this season. Drilling of the tenth hole of the season is well underway and string 5 will be deployed in this hole before New Year's.
- December 21, 2008
- South Pole Weekly Report: Week ending December 21: It was a busy week of arrivals and departures for the IceCube team at South Pole. Eight individuals left and six new people arrived this week as planned. The current population stands at 50. We had a very successful week for IceCube construction with three more holes drilled for a total of seven this season.
- December 18, 2008
- Exploratorium live webcast from the South Pole: For the International Polar Year, we gave polar scientists cameras and blogging tools and asked them to document their field work. Follow along on their adventures and see what it's like to be a research scientist in the Arctic or Antarctica.
- December 16, 2008
- December 14, 2008
- South Pole Weekly Report: Week ending December 14: With the arrival of the new On-Ice Lead on December 9, the total IceCube population stands at 52. This has been a big week on all fronts: two more holes drilled (total now 4); 3 more strings deployed (total now 4); surface cables for trunks 2 and 3 (out of 4 for the season) pulled into the East tower and connected; 18 more IceTop tanks filled (total now 28 of 38); and DOMs tested for the next two strings.
- December 11, 2008
- University of Delaware Team Blogs, from the South Pole IceCube Projects: I arrived at the South Pole on November 12 by LC-130 from McMurdo. Jerry Marty, the current National Science Foundation representative here, was on the same flight. Jerry has been coming to the South Pole nearly every year since 1974. Most recently, he has been in charge of construction of the new South Pole Elevated Station that was dedicated in January this year.
- December 10, 2008
- University Scientists Working Hard at South Pole: University of Delaware (UD) scientists and engineers are currently working at South Pole under very harsh conditions. This research team is one of the many other ones working on the construction of IceCube, the world's largest neutrino telescope in the Antarctic ice, far beneath the continent's snow-covered surface.
- December 7, 2008
- South Pole Weekly Report: Week ending December 7: The total IceCube population stands at 51. The big news of the week is completion of the first hole of the season and the deployment of String 18 on December 5 local time. Nearly all IceCube cargo for the season had arrived by December 4, including the Paro pressure sensors required for deployment.
- December 4, 2008
- November 30, 2008
- November 22, 2008
- South Pole Weekly Report: Week ending November 22: IceCube population has been almost constant this week the total population stands at 47. Weather remains cold, still -41oC, sometimes a degree or two colder. However, visibility has been good and the total number of flights from McMurdo to South Pole now stands at 44.
- November 20, 2008
- Data acquisition embedded in the Antarctic ice sheet: Though physics and electrical engineering are different sciences, the two fields sometimes converge when scientists tackle tricky experiments. Justin presents one example of a project in which embedded technologies are helping researchers gather data at the South Pole.
- November 11, 2008
- South Pole Weekly Report: Week ending November 15: IceCube Drillers and other staff began arriving at The South Pole Station on November 6. With seventeen IceCube participants arriving at Pole on November 12 the IceCube population reached plan level at 45. The arrival of 3 additional team members on the 15th brought us to a plan total of 48, almost full strength.
- November 8, 2008
- Antarctica no cupcake for UW-Madison groups: At the South Pole, the temperature on a pleasant summer day is 30 below zero.In that kind of cold, skin cracks and, according to the journals of one old-time explorer, "tears turn to steam."
- November 3, 2008
- In Memoriam: Martin A. Pomerantz: On behalf of the National Science Foundation and as the head of the U.S. Antarctic Program, I wish to express our sadness at the news of the recent passing of Martin A. Pomerantz, who died on October 25, at his northern California home at the age of 91.
- September 24, 2008
- Sunrise At The South Pole: On Sept. 21st, Ethan Dicks looked out the window of his office and saw the sun for the first time in 6 months. He quickly...
- August 1, 2008
- June 28, 2008
- June 2, 2008
- May 26, 2008
- May 15, 2008
- Summer in Antarctica: Link Not Available
- April 24, 2008
- April 17, 2008
- New Scientist features IceCube in montage and in article!: New Scientist has featured IceCube in their April 19th issue in an article by Anil Anathaswamy who visited the South Pole last season. An exclusive video is available on YouTube about the construction of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory!
- April 9, 2008
- Research Channel features IceCube: Come along on a voyage of discovery as scientists at the University of Wisconsin - Madison reveal three exciting research projects. The IceCube observatory in Antarctica is furthering our understanding of physics through new high-energy sources.
- February 12, 2008
- IceCube on CBS Evening News: A piece on Antarctic science with an overview of IceCube will be featured on the CBS Evening News with Katie Couric at 8:30pm on Tuesday, February 12, 2008!
- February 3, 2008
- South Pole Weekly Report: Week ending February 03: The week was dominated by the shut-down of drilling operations as well as String and IceTop Commissioning, and the start of Verification and Calibration. Major activities continue to be ahead of schedule and preparations are underway for the departure of IceCube personnel, station close, and the transition to winter-over activities.
- January 27, 2008
- South Pole Weekly Report: Week ending January 27: The 17th and 18th strings for the season were successfully drilled and deployed this week, meeting the season's "stretch goal" and also setting a new record for number of strings deployed in one season in spite a 5 day delay in the scheduled start to the season. Following a one-day break, drilling began for the 17th hole on January 21st.
- January 19, 2008
- South Pole Weekly Report: Week ending January 19: The 14th, 15th, and 16th strings of the season were successfully deployed this week. Drilling has been going steadily and a logging run was performed on the last hole of this week. Eight strings have been commissioned with a few quads not connected because the sensors were not frozen yet.
- January 16, 2008
- New Scientist Space article: Upgraded neutrino detector could root out dark matter - The world's biggest neutrino detector, IceCube, may be augmented to search for signs of dark matter at the Sun's core or at the centre of our galaxy...
- January 13, 2008
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South Pole Weekly Report: Week ending January 13: The 11th, 12th, and 13th strings of the season were successfully deployed this week. Drilling has been going steadily. The strings typically reached target depth 10 h after the drilling was completed. Commissioning activities are increasing as more strings begin to freeze in.
- January 9, 2008
- January 6, 2008
- South Pole Weekly Report: Week ending January 6: The 8th, 9th, and 10th strings of the season were successfully deployed this week. The string for the 8th hole was secured on December 31st followed by a holiday break; the 9th string was secured on January 3rd and the 10th string was secured on January 5th. The drilling of the hole for the 11th string of the season has commenced on January 5.
- December 31, 2007
- December 30, 2007
- South Pole Weekly Report: Week ending December 30: The 6th and 7th strings of the season were successfully deployed this week. The string for the 6th hole was secured on December 24th and the 7th string at 3am on December 29th, following a two-day holiday break.
- December 28, 2007
- December 22, 2007
- South Pole Weekly Report: Week ending December 22: The 4th and 5th strings of the season were successfully deployed this week. The hole for the 6th string was completed late on December 23rd and the string deployment is expected to be completed on December 24th.
- December 16, 2007
- South Pole Weekly Report: Week ending December 16: The 3rd string of the season was successfully deployed in drill-hole #55 on Sunday morning, December 16, 2007. The last of the 14 surface cables were pulled into the ICL this week resulting in a total of 40 surface cables now installed into the ICL.
- December 8, 2007
- South Pole Weekly Report: Week ending December 8: This was a big week for IceCube. The first hole of the season was successfully completed on Friday, December 7, and String 63 was deployed during the night and tied off Saturday morning. Cables for the first three trunks were pulled into the ICL this week and connected.
- December 5, 2007
- Popular Science: Never Snowed In: The American Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station's design allows researchers to spend more time studying the climate and less time shoveling snow...
- December 1, 2007
- November 24, 2007
- November 23, 2007
- New Scientist Space: Giant IceCube could take snaps of Earth's Core: A giant telescope buried in ice at the South Pole could one day create pictures of the Earth's core. According to a new calculation, the instrument - called IceCube - could produce a picture of the Earth's dense iron core, silhouetted against the lighter rocky mantle.
- November 17, 2007
- South Pole Weekly Report: Week ending November 17: Weather conditions in McMurdo and at the South Pole Station improved and the LC130 schedule is in full swing. Population is now on schedule with 49 of a planned 50 IceCube team members at the station.
- November 10, 2007
- South Pole Weekly Report: Week ending November 10: Weather conditions in McMurdo and at the South Pole Station remain the primary factor for the reduced number of passenger and cargo flights to Pole. There have been three LC130 flights to Pole last week delivering passengers and needed station commodities.
- November 8, 2007
- Ends of the Earth: Today Show in Antarctica: It was 1:01 a.m. at the South Pole - 7:01 a.m. in New York - when Ann Curry reported live by satellite phone that after eight days of trying, she had finally reached the absolute end of the earth.
- November 3, 2007
- South Pole Weekly Report: Week ending November 3: Currently 19 IceCube staff are at the South Pole Station although 25 were expected to be there by this time. Weather conditions in McMurdo and at the South Pole Station have grounded passenger and cargo flights to Pole.
- October 29, 2007
- October 9, 2007
- New South Pole Station Bubble Panorama.: In the evening the sun is at grid North, casting its rays at the front of the New Station. Motivation enough to get back out and get the kite flying again. The panorama gives a good idea of the size of the New Station. You have me down there for scale. To the left of the New Station you can see the Dome. The sun is still very low above the horizon. Watch for the long shadow I am casting. I also put a hotspot right at the Geographic South Pole. Try to find it.
- September 7, 2007
- National Geographic - The South Pole Project: In the South Pole, temperatures can drop to more than 100 degrees below zero Fahrenheit. Now, witness as engineers go up against staggering odds to build a 160,000-square-foot, high-tech science facility in this frozen wasteland. Through exclusive access granted by the National Science Foundation, NGC"s cameras give viewers a glimpse of the intense danger & physical challenges of working in one of most inhospitable places on the planet.
- September 5, 2007
- IceCube in German (PDF): Tief ins Eis der Antarktis versenkt, registriert ein außergewöhnliches Teleskop Teilchen der kosmischen Strahlung: IceCube soll ein neues Fenster zum All eröffnen.
- August 17, 2007
- Spencer Klein describes working as a physicist at the South Pole.: The quest for physics can take us in strange directions. In the 1930s, cosmic-ray physicists crossed the globe, measuring the radiation intensity at different latitudes. They have climbed high mountains, flown U-2 former-spy planes and lofted balloons at extreme latitudes - all to further probe the mysterious rays.
- August 15, 2007
- IceCube in Italian: Teresa Montaruli, scientist with IceCube, has an article on Dark Matter in the Italian journal Asimmetrie. This journal is distributed to Italian university physics departments and to Italian high schools. Here is the link to the journal. Professor Montaruli's article begins on page 40.
- July 26, 2007
- Here On Earth IceCube Special: This hour on Here on Earth: Radio Without Borders, Jean Feraca and her guest talk about an underground telescope being built in Antarctica to study neutrinos and solve the last riddle of the universe. UW Chancellor John Wiley called it equal to the building of the Great Pyramids.
- June 22, 2007
- June 15, 2007
- Life at the South Pole: James Roth, a senior electronics and instrumentation technician in UD's Department of Physics and Astronomy, recently completed his fourth season in Antarctica, working on UD's "IceTop" project. His blog from the South Pole on Jan. 15 provides insight into what it's like to live and work on the harshest continent on the planet.
- May 23, 2007
- May 1, 2007
- Sky At Night: Sarah Reed delves deep into the new IceCube research facility in the South Pole that is studying the Universe's extreme events.
- April 5, 2007
- March 30, 2007
- Exploratorium Webcast: In a special live Webcast, educators at the Exploratorium will connect with scientists and engineers at the South Pole to kick off the International Polar Year, 2007-9.
- March 29, 2007
- IceCube in the Economist: To Coldly Go: AMUNDSEN came on a dog-sled. Scott came on foot. Most of today's visitors to the South Pole, however, come by plane, courtesy of the New York Air National Guard's special Hercules cargo aircraft, which are fitted with hydraulic skis.
- March 26, 2007
- Lab On Stilts: Link No Longer Available
- March 9, 2007
- IPY Germany: IceCube featured on German International Polar Year site!: The largest detector for elementary particles, IceCube, is presently being installed in the deep ice below the Amundsen-Scott Station. Detecting cosmic neutrinos from outer space it will provide insights in cosmic regions which otherwise are hidden to astronomers: a "new window to the Universe."
- March 2, 2007
- International Polar Year kicks off! (Link removed on CNN)
- February 12, 2007
- February 12, 2007
- South Pole Weekly Report: Week ending February 12: The last of the drilling crew left last week. Drilling operations have ceased for the season and the drill camp has been moved to the winter storage site where it will resume life in November of this year. IceCube personnel number 17 including our 3 winterover operators.
- February 11, 2007
- February 5, 2007
- South Pole Weekly Report: Week ending February 5: Drilling and deployment of the 13th hole of the season - hole 56, was finished in the early morning of January 29th. This brings the total count of deployed in-ice strings to 22 containing 1320 Digital Optical Modules, and 26 IceTop stations (52 tanks) with 104 IceTop DOMs.
- February 2, 2007
- January 31, 2007
- January 31, 2007
- January 29, 2007
- South Pole Weekly Report: Week ending January 29: With the deployment of strings 12 and 13, this week completes the drilling and deployment operations at the South Pole for this season. We now have 22 strings, 1320 in-ice DOMs including those from the last two seasons.
- IceCube on the Wisconsin Public Radio broadcast!: On Monday, January 29, Kael Hanson from the South Pole and Bob Paulos from the Madison studios of Wisconsin Public Radio will participate in a call-in program hosted by Larry Meiller.
- January 22, 2007
- South Pole Weekly Report: Week ending January 22: Drilling operations have been proceeding smoothly. Eleven holes were drilled and strings deployed by January 14. The ICL is effectively commissioned. All strings from last year are powered up. Special devices have been deployed. Commissioning in progress.
- January 18, 2007
- IceCube In WSJ: South Pole project probes depths of universe (Link removed from WSJ)
- January 15, 2007
- Xserve RAID: Coldest Servers Ever, IceCube's Computing Power: The University of Wisconsin - Madison IceCube Neutrino Observatory has installed Apple Xserve RAID arrays at its facility currently under construction at the South Pole. The IceCube Neutrino Observatory, operated by the University of Wisconsin - Madison with a grant from the National Science Foundation, is a research station and laboratory located at the South Pole. The $271 million project, currently under construction, uses sophisticated detectors in the massive quantities of pure water in the form of ice to detect neutrinos, which it is hoped will reveal more information about the building blocks and origins of the Universe. For more information, please visit the IceCube web site.
- January 14, 2007
- January 7, 2007
- January 6, 2007
- January 5, 2007
- January 5, 2007
- NPR On Ice: Podcast interview of Francis Halzen for NPR's Science Friday! (Podcast no longer available)
- December 31, 2006
- South Pole Weekly Report: Week ending December 31: The year ended at the South Pole with four strings deployed and the fifth hole drilled, ready for deployment to begin on January 1. Work in the ICL proceeds with computer cabling completed and ten surface cables installed.
- December 24, 2006
- South Pole Weekly Report: Week ending December 24: Two strings were installed in the Antarctic ice this week making three new cables added to the IceCube array prior to the Christmas break. Strings 67 and 66 were installed with the help of the deployment and drilling personnel.
- December 22, 2006
- Christmas at the South Pole (Link removed from WSJ)
- December 19, 2006
- December 17, 2006
- South Pole Weekly Report: Week ending December 17: Forty-six IceCube people are at the South Pole Station. Cargo deliveries continue on schedule. The first hole of the season was drilled this week and string installation was completed on December 15.
- December 15, 2006
- December 10, 2006
- South Pole Weekly Report: Week ending December 10: For the period ending December 10, 45 IceCube people were at the pole, five new arrivals and six departures. In this last week, we received an additional 148 DOMs, 128 DOMs from DESY and 16 DOMs from PSL produced with Quantum gel.
- November 24, 2006
- South Pole Weekly Report: Week ending November 24: The 43 people at Pole for IceCube this week celebrated Thanksgiving on Saturday the 25th along with other scientists, technicians and support staff at Pole. Flights to South Pole Station were 22 compared to a plan of 23 for this week.
- November 21, 2006
- November 20, 2006
- November 18, 2006
- South Pole Weekly Report: Week ending November 18: Forty-four IceCube personnel are now at Pole. Cargo deliveries continue and IceCube staff continues to work with Raytheon staff to optimize cargo delivery and logistics. The snow trailer for snow removal and snow management is operational and in use.
- November 13, 2006
- November 11, 2006
- November 8, 2006
- New Season Starts: Drilling Begins As People Arrive: Despite a delay due to colder than normal temperatures this year, the IceCube team including the Winterovers began arriving at the South Pole on October 31. The drillers are unpacking the new cargo, setting up their shift roster, and making equipment modifications in anticipation of beginning drilling on December 5.
- September 25, 2006
- New Website Goes Live: Welcome to the new IceCube website!: As you can see, a great deal has changed with the new site design! An important point to note for long time IceCube visitors and collaborators: this is the first phase of a 2 part redesign of IceCube's website. The second phase which is currently in process is a redesign of IceCube's internal website which will be available to all collaborators and collaborating institutions and will be a powerful tool for organizing our online resources.
- April 9, 2006
- Bringing the Ice South: Baton Rouge Collaboration Meeting in Louisiana Outreach Event - April 9
- April 7, 2006
- Successful Season Concludes: Season press release: IceCube scientists and engineers installed 480 new deep ice and 48 new surface Digital Optical Modules (DOMs) during the 2005-6 Austral season at the South Pole effectively doubling the size of AMANDA, the existing neutrino detector. Including the optical modules from previous seasons, over 600 IceCube optical modules and over 660 AMANDA sensors now comprise the current installation of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory.
- February 26, 2006
- January 23, 2006
- January 11, 2006
- Burckhalter Elementary School E-mail: Below you will find questions from students in Laurel Przybylski's third grade class at Burckhalter Elementary School in Oakland, California. Ms. Przybylski's husband Gerry, a scientist at the South Pole, corresponded by email with these students.
- January 9, 2006
- South Pole Weekly Report: Week ending January 9: Very good progress was made in drilling this week. Hole number 39 was completed on 1700h on January 3 and hole 39 was completed 1700h on January 8, exactly 5 days after the previous hole.
- December 30, 2005
- December 23, 2005
- South Pole Weekly Report: Week ending December 23: The drilling of the first hole of the season started on Monday, December 19, 2005. The new firn drill was used and performed as expected. After firn drilling was complete the firn drill was removed and the drill tip, weight stacks, and drill head were assembled and prepared for ice drilling. Subsequently there was a three-day delay in the start of ice drilling to address issues with the programmable drives and the calibration of the load cells.
- December 17, 2005
- South Pole Weekly Report: Week ending December 17: The actual start of drilling of the first hole of the season started on Monday, December 19th, in the very early morning. The new firn drill was used to a depth of roughly 40 meters and performed as expected. After firn drilling was complete the firn drill was removed and the drill tip, weight stacks, and drill head was assembled and prepared for ice drilling.
- December 9, 2005
- South Pole Weekly Report: Week ending December 9: The current forecast for the start of deep ice drilling is the weekend of December 16th, a week later than the original plan. Cargo has become a major concern in the last week with about 70,000 lbs of cargo behind schedule, mainly due to delays in shipment out of ChristChurch.
- December 3, 2005
- South Pole Weekly Report: Week ending December 3: The general progress on IceCube construction activities is very good. The current forecast for the start of deep ice drilling is December 12th or 13th, a couple of days later than the original plan of December 10th. IceTop construction is on schedule with all the surface tanks positioned in the trenches that were excavated by Raytheon Polar Support Corporation (RPSC). DOM testing is proceeding on schedule. The South Pole System for data handling is in place and will be available to the data acquisition team within the next few days.
- December 2, 2005
- A New Season Begins At The South Pole: IceCube staff members are on their way to the South Pole for our second season of installation. Approximately, 100 scientists and engineers from around the world will participate in activities at the pole. They hope to install and commission 7-10 new locations with digital optical modules (DOMs) on the surface and at depths in the ice between 1,500 and 2,500 meters.
- December 1, 2005
- Beyond Einstein: Geneva, 18 November 2005. CERN1 and the World Year of Physics International Steering Committee are partnering with some of the world's leading physics laboratories, science museums and technology partners to present a twelve-hour live webcast to celebrate Einstein and look beyond the World Year of Physics 2005.
- November 25, 2005
- South Pole Weekly Report: Week ending November 25: The finale this week at the South Pole Station was the Thanksgiving Dinner. Finely prepared appetizers, festive live music, beverages, and cheerful conversation, was shared with friends and co-Polies in the BioMed Hallway. Dinner was served in Dining Facility in three shifts to accommodate the Station population, beginning at 4:00 PM.
- November 18, 2005
- South Pole Weekly Report: Week ending November 18: Flights in are ahead of plan with 78 compared to 60 planned. Weather continues to improve so that more pieces of heavy equipment are coming on line. The HF antenna is complete and the transceiver has arrived for installation.
- November 11, 2005
- South Pole Weekly Report: Week ending November 11: IceCube people and material continue to arrive at the South Pole Station. Flights in are ahead of schedule although only non-driftable cargo can come in until the weather improves. Eighteen drillers and 3 winterovers comprise the IceCube population and the change-over of the WinterOver staff is complete.
- November 5, 2005
- South Pole Weekly Report: Week ending November 5: Much of the winter snow has been cleared to allow access in and around the structures that contain the drilling heating plant and pumps. A portable generator has been located at the Summer Camp to supply power for heaters in these structures prior to installation of upgraded or replaced components.
- May 10, 2005
- : IceCube in Popular Science. These 10 telescopes won't just revolutionize our understanding of the cosmos, they'll change everything we think a telescope can be.
- April 2, 2005
- "Ice Fishing For Neutrinos" Exhibit at UW-Madison Science Expeditions 2005
- February 15, 2005
- September 30, 2004
- For IceCube Work, Penn State Eberly College of Science Names David Atlee "Co-op Student Of The Year": David Atlee, a physics major from King of Prussia, PA, has been selected as the recipient of the 2004 Co-op Student of the Year Award, sponsored by the Eberly College of Science Cooperative Education Program. The award is given annually to outstanding participants in the Eberly College of Science Cooperative Education Program in recognition of their academic achievements and contributions to their employers, the University, the community, and the field of cooperative education.
- August 28, 2004
- AMANDA Listed As One Of World's Biggest Physics Experiments In New Science Magazine: Mapping the neutrino sky. Neutrinos stream out from the most violent events and objects in the universe, such as gamma-ray bursters and active galaxies with supermassive black holes at their centres. Their feeble interaction with matter makes them ideal astronomical messengers. Unlike light or charged particles, they travel across the cosmos without being absorbed by dust or deflected by magnetic fields, giving an unhindered view of objects that might otherwise be hidden.
- July 12, 2004
- New Versions of "A Neutrino Telescope In The Antarctic Ice" Movie Now Available
