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IceCube Neutrino Observatory
Working on the Enhanced Hot Water Drill
Project Highlights
- Toy IceCube: A video about IceCube, the author of the video is Casey O’Hara, a high school teacher from California that in a matter of days will be travelling to the South Pole to join the IceCube people stationed there. Mr. O’Hara is involved in PolarTREC, an NSF-funded program that provides polar research experiences for teachers; you can get more details about his trip from this link.
News
- November 14, 2009
- South Pole Weekly Report: Week ending November 14: South Pole Station Population is 224. The current IceCube population stands at a count of 37, an increase of 29 from the previous week. The eight IceCube staff who were at the Pole were certainly glad when 22 Cubers arrived. This was the largest single day increase in IceCube population since construction began here at the Pole. All of the new arrivals are in good health and the acclimatization process has been smooth.
- November 4, 2009
- What can neutrinos tell us about the universe?: IceCube is featured in the December 2009 issue of Astronomy magazine - "Astronomers are studying subatomic particles from supernovae and other energetic phenomena, but such particles are difficult to detect." A subscription is required to read the article.
- September 4, 2009
- Greetings From Antarctica: The UW leads "Big Science" projects to discover clues to the cosmos. Mark Krasberg avoids the worst weeks of Wisconsin's harsh winters by lighting out for sunny Antarctica. There, at the bottom of the world, the UW-Madison physics researcher is helping to build a $270 million telescope, called Ice Cube, that promises to bring into focus some of the most violent and intriguing phenomena in the universe.
- August 28, 2009
- Down the hole: Special instrument provides complementary information to ice core records. Ice cores from Antarctica, Greenland and elsewhere in the world serve as a way for scientists to travel back in time to understand past climate. They analyze such things as the trapped bubbles of gas, chemicals, insoluble dust and trace metals found in the ice to reconstruct the cycles of glacial advance and retreat, the waxing and waning of temperature, the sudden appearance of droughts and volcanic eruptions.
- August 14, 2009
- Héctor Rubinstein in memoriam: It is with deep sorrow we announce that our colleague and friend Héctor Rubinstein passed away last Saturday the 8th of August 2009 at Ingarö in the Stockholm archipelago.
- July 8, 2009
- Gaisser wins prestigious Humboldt Award: Thomas K. Gaisser, UD's Martin A. Pomerantz Chair of Physics and Astronomy, has received Germany's Humboldt Research Award in recognition of lifetime achievements in research.
