Last week, two new incoming IceCube winterovers arrived at the Pole and were greeted by the outgoing winterovers, who will train them on IceCube before they leave and make their way back home.
WIPAC is back with our IceCube display at the Holiday Fantasy in Lights event in Madison, WI!
The IceCube detector may have been quiet, but there was plenty of other activity last week at the Pole.
Another plane arrived at the Pole last week to refuel before continuing on to McMurdo Station and departed with a couple of additional passengers.
A relatively quiet week at the Pole ended with the excitement of the first arriving plane and tours of the ice tunnels.
South Pole station had their final all-hands meeting, at which they held their yearly raffle of flags that had been outside all winter.
Last week, the intrepid South Pole station winterovers got themselves together (all but two of them!) for an outdoor group photo.
It was sunrise last week at the Pole, but the sky opposite the sunrise was a showstopper as well.
Although sunrise hasn’t “officially” arrived yet, the South Pole station held their celebratory sunrise meal last week.
The Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center (WIPAC) at the University of Wisconsin–Madison is excited to begin collaboration with researchers at peer universities as part of the Accelerated AI Algorithms for Data-Driven Discovery (A3D3) institute, a multidisciplinary entity funded and established by the National Science Foundation’s Harnessing the Data Revolution (HDR) program. On September 28, 2021, NSF announced $75 million in funding to establish five new HDR institutes, including $15 million for A3D3.