The Antarctic Mountaineer Life: A Day in the Life of a Scientist | Continent 7: Antarctica

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·Nov 11, 2024

Another day at the office. Antarctica right now, we're on a glacier with lots of crevasses. So you can see behind me. Basically, if we fell in a crevasse, you would be my anchor.

So, I just have to fill my bag here with some snow because one of the challenges at working is that it's almost always blowing. If I let this bag go, even in a light wind like right now, it'll be gone.

Fairly stiff snow, and snow is extremely strong. That's why unintended curved asphalt here is very uncommon. That said, when they happen, the consequences can be very bad. So, I just have to take precautions.

This is one end of this dipole: positive, negative. It's measuring electric field because the surface here is not very conductive. So, you need to give it a bit of a boost at the end.

These are preamps that one of the other scientists, John, invented when he built them specifically for this work. There's no... there's nothing else in the world like these.

Last week, I went out feeling bad and came home feeling worse. Yeah, you just kind of keep going. Everyone has to work pretty hard.

These connections are not very strong, and then we lent the helicopter. The rotor puts a lot of air glass, and the worst thing would be to set it up really nice and beautifully and have it work when we sit in there and then have the helicopter blow the connections apart.

So, this connection is pretty strong, but for this one, I just leave a little bit of extra, give it a little wrap, just like that. Can't go anywhere. [Music] [Music]

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