Departure of the drillers

Group shot at the South Pole departure lounge.

Driller panorama...

...with Herc in the background...

The IceCube and ARA drillers have packed up all of their equipment, placed it into storage, and are now headed home. It's the best group of ice drillers in the world as far as we know. They did the hot water drilling for IceCube and ARA as well as RAM drilling for ARA this season. It'll be a far smaller crowd next year for the small-scale ARA deployments. But in a few years...

Materials for students to learn about Antarctic science

The US Antarctic Program homepages:
http://www.usap.gov/

The University of Delaware (Bartol Research) site talking about IceTop/IceCube construction:
http://www.expeditions.udel.edu/antarctica/building-icecube-icetop.html

Dispatches from Polar Scientists (Exploratorium):
http://icestories.exploratorium.edu/dispatches/index.php

Teachers & researchers on the ice:
http://www.polartrec.com/

Some IceCube videos (three of them, available in different formats):
http://www.icecube.wisc.edu/~malkus/Video/MMSDVideo/

IceCube Project Homepage:
http://icecube.wisc.edu/

ARA Project Homepage, but there's not much here yet:
http://ara.physics.wisc.edu/