SSU Physics Student Spends Winter at South Pole

R. Allan Baker has spent the winter of 2001 working as a cryogenic technician at the South Pole. Al will return to SSU in Spring 2002 and will describe his experiences in the "What Physicists Do" series.

Watching the sunrise after six months of darkness

Sitting in the cryogenic shack

Al and two colleagues build a Foucault pendulum at the South Pole

Please send comments, additions, and corrections to bakerro@spole.gov

JST 2001-11-07