Space Weather Monitoring on the Antarctic Plateau

While there are many new studies beginning in Antarctica, Michelle and the research team will be supporting a project that has been collecting important data for 18 years. The Polar Experiment Network for Geospace Upper atmosphere Investigations project (or PENGUIn for short) is gathering information in Antarctica to further understand the sun and space influences on the Earth’s upper atmosphere. This network is supported by the National Science Foundation Office of Polar Programs and is a collaborative effort to better understand the high latitude atmospheres of Earth and its response to conditions in space.