1 comment SUMMIT CAMP, GREENLAND– The start of our research involves digging, and lots of it. Two large snow pits have to be dug out for sampling and for lab space (we have to keep the snow we’re working on really cold!). Luckily we had some great weather, and a whole crew of motivated diggers.
Music: “I’m Sorry” by Candy Pants.
Zoe Courville studies snow and ice in the Arctic and Antarctica. She has a PhD in material science and works as a research mechanical engineer at the Cold Regions Research and Engineering Lab in Hanover, New Hampshire. During the summer of 2008, Zoe’s research took her to the top of the Greenland Ice Cap. From November 2008 through February 2009, she’s reporting from along a 1,865-mile (3,000 km) journey from the South Pole to Troll Station as part of the Norwegian–U.S. Scientific Traverse of East Antarctica. Zoe loves working in the polar regions and sharing her experiences with others. 
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Oh, you guys are making one of those backlit snowpits. I wonder if that’s the one that I visited riding the electric snowmobile. Just for fun, I’m going to make a backlit snowpit at the Niwot Ridge site. Woot!