Life at the Pole

Life at the Pole

Week 48 at the Pole
By Jean DeMerit | |
There was plenty of activity last week at the Pole. IceCube’s winterovers attended a presentation by the Antarctic operations manager, [...]

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Week 47 at the Pole
By Jean DeMerit | |
Last week at the Pole, IceCube’s new winterovers had occasion to visit the IceCube Lab, a short trek from the [...]

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Week 46 at the Pole
By Jean DeMerit | |
It’s summer at the Pole, with new people coming and other folks leaving. IceCube’s new winterovers, Connor and Kalvin, are [...]

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Meet IceCube’s 2023-2024 winterovers, Connor and Kalvin!
By Alisa King-Klemperer | |
The time has come for our current winterovers, Marc and Hrvoje, to pass the torch to the new winterovers that [...]

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Week 45 at the Pole
By Jean DeMerit | |
Seems like only yesterday when IceCube winterovers Hrvoje and Marc arrived at the South Pole to begin their adventure. And [...]

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Week 44 at the Pole
By Jean DeMerit | |
This could be IceCube winterover Marc’s last weather balloon launch at the South Pole. And what a nice image, with [...]

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Week 43 at the Pole
By Jean DeMerit | |
Summer season has begun—there were two flights in and out of the Pole last week. The first flight just stopped [...]

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Week 42 at the Pole
By Jean DeMerit | |
With the first planes of the summer season soon to arrive, it’s full steam ahead for readying the station for [...]

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Week 41 at the Pole
By Jean DeMerit | |
Oh, we thought they were done clearing snow. Guess not—look at all that accumulation still on the front deck of [...]

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Week 40 at the Pole
By Jean DeMerit | |
Last week was another relatively quiet week at the South Pole. IceCube’s winterovers responded to a couple of pages for [...]

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Week 39 at the Pole
By Jean DeMerit | |
Things were on the quiet side last week at the South Pole. The sun is up but still very low [...]

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Week 38 at the Pole
By Jean DeMerit | |
It was very cloudy for the official sunrise this year. In fact, it was cloudy most of last week at [...]

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