Hey, I just finished High school, and will be studying CS.
I absolutely love Antarctica 🇦🇶, and wanted to initially be a scientist to research there.
But finally ended up taking CS. by the dream is still alive, please offer your experiences, thoughts, recommendations, anything helps.
Thank you all!!
So I am very likely going to be at the south pole for summer 2026/2027. I have seem quite a few posts here regarding sunglasses but not really any recommendations on where to get them.
I currently only have one pair of prescription sunglasses with polarized lenses from Zenni but they have a full metal frame which I understand may not be the most comfortable with the cold. Also Zenni says they block 100% UV but no ratings, Also they don't indicate how much light they allow through.
I am looking to purchase 2 pairs of glasses with plastic frames so I have a primary and spare without using insurance as I already used my coverage for regular glasses this year.
I don't want to get anything that uses inserts to convert regular sunglasses to prescription, my my prescription is minor.
I am located in the USA, I have looked into some places online in NZ and they seems to actually give UV400 ratings and the amount of light they transmit. However the price after conversion is basically the same as from Zenni, I do want them to be polarized too.
Does anyone have recommendations on where to get the glasses and with what specs.
Also any experience with purchasing in NZ before arrival?
See also: The publication in The Cryosphere
Looking to book my flight for Buenos Aires —> Ushuaia. Going to book the day before cruise departure.
JetSmart is obviously affordable, but I’m looking for feedback from anyone who has flown on JetSmart down to USH. Did you run into any issues? I am not flying out to December, so wondering if I should book now and see if there are any flight changes, or if there is feedback that the changes came last minute?
Thanks in advance :)
Hi everyone,
I’m the producer (and proud dad) of my 9-year-old son’s podcast, Join the Fray. We recently sat down with Dr. Ted Gervan, and I thought this community might appreciate his unique perspective on how the industry has shifted over the last two decades.
Before he became an educational leader at institutions like Sheridan, Capilano, and the Centre for Digital Media in BC, Ted worked as a prosthetic makeup artist in Hollywood. He was part of the talented team that brought the original X-Men (2000) to life. [Ted got the chance to support the super talented team of Evan Penny or Ann McLaren who designed the look for Mystique and Sabretooth!]
He contributed to the character designs (including the drawings for Sabretooth) and helped building specific costumes, pouring and coloring the silicone, painting nails, and applying the makeup once the initial sculpts were molded.
Fraser and Ted had a great discussion about:
It’s a non-monetized, fun interview and thanks to the Mods here to enable me to share it.
Spotify Link - https://open.spotify.com/episode/53jpLDHotOh8mE8Vo6jgc8?si=Koxoja8jTwWTW0bBUTpLoA
Enjoy folks and thanks for the opportunity to share this fun chat!
Temperature was -87f with a windchill of -130f.
I am happy to share a recently published paper in PNAS in which I participated as a co-author:
The global diversity and decline of glacier animals
This collaborative work provides a global synthesis of the animal diversity associated with glacier environments. One of its main messages is simple but powerful: glaciers are not empty frozen landscapes. They are living ecosystems that host a unique and still underappreciated fauna.
The study reports at least 152 animal species from glacier environments, across 14 classes and 7 phyla, including 73 species known only from glacial habitats. Among these organisms are rotifers, tardigrades, springtails, nematodes, insects, annelids, and other small invertebrates living in habitats such as cryoconite holes, surface ice, snow/firn, meltwater channels, supraglacial debris, and glacier mice.
For me, it is especially meaningful that this paper helps bring more visibility to small invertebrates, including rotifers, in biodiversity research, conservation, and science communication. These organisms are often overlooked, yet they are part of the biological identity of glacier ecosystems.
The paper also highlights an important conservation concern: as glaciers retreat, many glacier specialists may face severe habitat loss during this century.
I am grateful to the leading authors and all collaborators for the extensive work behind this study, and I am glad to have contributed to this collective effort.
Paper in PNAS: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2514455123
Paper in ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/407109925_The_global_diversity_and_decline_of_glacier_animals
Hi everybody!
I'm a first-year PhD student working in Arctic micropaleontology, and I've been working with foraminifera since 2019. One thing I'd really like to do during my PhD is join a research cruise.
I was wondering if there's some kind of database where research cruises are listed, or where you can see which research vessels have received funding or have upcoming expeditions. How do people usually find opportunities to join a cruise? Is there an application process, or is it mostly through collaborations and networking?
Any advice would be greatly appreciated! I did try asking my supervisor, but unfortunately he isn't very responsive, so I thought I'd ask here instead.
Thanks in advance! :)
Just wandering if they old bars are haunted or still there in McTown....
Would they build cities out of snow and stone?
Would they farm lichen and moss? Would they hunt and/or domesticate Antarctic midges and fish and how would humans react to the evolved penguins
I would love to hear some rugby stories about games played in Antarctica. 🇦🇶
I would love to donate to people’s research in exchange for some extremely rare rugby swag. I’d jersey swap if anyone’s interested in random gear. If anyone wants to reach out feel free to do so.
65° 29' 26.24''S 161° 1' 5.474''E / -65.49062236,161.01818728
Anyone know anything about this unlabeled Island here next to Young Island in Antarctica? It shows up consistently in Google Earth historical imagery view, but only as a distortion on Google Maps.
Update: Nothing shows up on NASA Worldview there on 2022 Mar 16-18 (when there's no cloud coverage), so could be a glitch. Same thing with other mapping software like Yandex/Bing/USGS Earth Explorer, nothing showed up on the satellite view.
Update 2 (image in comments): Found something on that location in the National Centers for Environmental Information Sonar Data Viewer (https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/maps/water-column-sonar/). There is definetly something there, and it's even labeled!
I'm going through the USAP PQ medical screening for an upcoming deployment to Antarctica. I've had the first dose of the 3-dose hepatitis A vaccine series, and I can get the second dose before I deploy. The third dose is scheduled for the 6-month mark, which will be after I'm already on the Ice.
Per CDC guidelines, the first dose alone provides strong protection (~95% of adults develop protective antibodies within a month). Has anyone dealt with an incomplete Hep A series during the USAP PQ process? Was having just the first two doses acceptable, or will missing the final booster cause an NPQ?
Looking for real experiences from people who've been through the UTMB PQ screening — did they flag incomplete multi-dose vaccine series, require a waiver/note for completion, or was it generally fine as long as the early doses were documented with time for immunity to develop?
Not seeking official medical advice, just community insight on how strict the process is with vaccine timing for USAP deployments. Any info would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks!
Especially because of global warming places like mcmurdo become towns over 10,000 people would that be interesting and there would be new villages where mining of copper, gold, platinum, and fossil fuels will happen, alongside domestication if antarctic life like the lichen, moss and seals, penguins are not eaten we're humans not sea leopards after all
MacTown showering cut to two minutes twice a week.
It's always been a bit of a dream of mine to work in Antarctica, but I developed narcolepsy when I was about 15. Based on what I've heard, I'm not particularly hopeful. Realistically, is there ANY chance at all? I would so love to go, but I realise I might have to say goodbye to that vision.
Otherwise, I have no medcial issues.
I am. Stationary engineering apprentice and I work at a hospital, great start for me but its more like a retirement job for the old heads. Anyway, I always wanted to go to Antartica and I know they definitely need people to work on their boilers and such. What would be the best course of action for job searching for places like McMurdo.
