Science and productivity by Dr. Christine Corbett Moran
Thank you to everyone who contacted me with your address! I have over 200 postcards to send and will be preparing them today. Unfortunately, I’m unable to take additional addresses to send postcards to at this stage–I mentioned replying within 5 days to my original email. If you’ve signed up for the newsletter since then Read More …
Do you want a postcard from the South Pole? Reply to this message with your address in the next 5 days and expect one in the mail! We’re about 800 subscribers now, and my goal was 1,000 by the end of my long stay, so feel free to forward to others interested in reading more Read More …
Last we spoke we were in the middle of a medevac, which was highly successful. The plane was parket on slats to prevent it from freezing to the ice: Here are a few collected articles on the medevac: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/south-pole-rescue-pilots-it-was-dark-cold-and-no-big-deal/2016/07/05/313c76c4-42ff-11e6-a76d-3550dba926ac_story.html http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/south-pole-rescue-all-in-a-day-s-work-for-kenn-borek-air-crew-1.2974034 http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/06/emergency-rescue-launched-ill-worker-south-pole https://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=138914 In addition to the patients making it out safely (primary mission), we got Read More …
Update: the medical evacuation mission is proceeding as planned, with a few minor delays. This Washington Post Article has a few more public details. I hope to be able to share an insider’s perspective as I am permitted. With the medevac mission proceeding as planned, crew morale is still high. This issue is about our midwinter Read More …
The first medical evacuation flight to the South Pole station in the middle of winter has been launched. I cannot share more details at this time due to patient and pilot privacy, but I can share that I am personally safe. I hope to be able to share more details of the rescue in the future, and especially Read More …
Sorry for the mishap last month where you got my newsletter 3x. I hope to not reproduce that issue again! In this newsletter I’ll merge April and May. The days in these months started to merge together somewhat, due to the routine of living in a station in the middle of a beautifully desolate continent Read More …
Since IBM released access to its 5-qubit quantum computer, with accompanying tutorial and ability to simulate and program it easily (via a graphical language that spits out a simple code for archival along with results), I’ve been kind of obsessed. As I worked my way through the tutorials in IBM’s simulator, for my own benefit Read More …
Welcome new subscribers! This month we had over 100 new subscribers! We’re now well over 500 Antarctica interested folks. As always, feel free to forward to friends and family who might like to follow. I hope to get up to 1000 interested friends, family, and friends of family/friends by the end of the year. The month of Read More …
It’s past time for my February newsletter! Thanks to everyone who has subscribed. We’re more than 400 Antarctica interested folks. Feel free to forward to friends and family who might like to follow. I hope to get up to 1000 interested friends, family, and friends of family/friends by the end of the year. First Third: Read More …
As you might have heard on my website, my newsletter, my Twitter, or, if we’re colleagues at Caltech, at work, I am currently working on the South Pole Telescope (SPT) onsite at the South Pole in Antarctica for January-November 2016 (I am employed by the University of Chicago). I have taken a sabbatical from my NSF Astronomy Read More …
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