Over the past few weeks, the team has been hard at work preparing for the upcoming winter and strategizing for the refurbishment season ahead. While the challenges may seem daunting, the months ahead promise exciting opportunities to enhance our system and the quality of the data it can produce. Cloudy skies persisted from Christmas to… Read More


After two hectic days of wrapping up the academic semester and collecting our issued extreme weather gear in Christchurch, our group—Dr. Xinzhao Chu, Kamen Schaefle, and I (Shay Mayer) —finally arrived at McMurdo Station on the evening of December 21st. We arrived on a C130 and were lucky enough to watch a beautiful flight over… Read More