Week 23 at the Pole

Close-up on three people smiling for the camera, wearing colorful shirts.
Kevin Zagorski, SPT/NSF

The photos from last week are all indoor shots, but clearly auroras aren’t the only source of color at the Pole. Last week the station celebrated a New Orleans–themed cocktail party, hosted by the SPT and BICEP winterovers. Décor and dress code were in the spirit of Mardi Gras (colorful), and all attendees enjoyed an evening of good music and conversation. The rest of the week was filled with the usual activities: IceAct testing, DOM calibrations, greenhouse harvesting, and … emergency response training. The images below show a complicated full patient assessment in progress followed by a recovery exercise in the below-surface fuel arches.

An emergency response exercise showing a patient with eyes closed on their back on a gurney, with several people attending to them.
Kevin Zagorski, SPT/NSF
Several people in red parkas or cold weather gear using headlamps in darkened fuel arch under the South Pole station.
Kevin Zagorski, SPT/NSF