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Casey OHara

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Expeditions: IceCube In-Ice Antarctic Telescope
Occupation: Teacher
Organization: Carlmont High School

Casey O'Hara has worked in the past as a mechanical engineer designing robots and implantable medical devices, but for the fast five years he has been teaching physics and integrated science at Carlmont High School. Curiosity drives his passion for teaching science, as it affords him the opportunity to constantly learn new things while helping his students learn. Mr. O'Hara's students apply physics to design, build, and perform on their own musical instruments, finding connections between physics and music. When not in the classroom, Mr. O'Hara likes to appease his curiosity through travel, mostly to tropical climates and warm beaches. Mr. O'Hara thinks that participating in the IceCube project will be an amazing opportunity to experience cutting edge physics research, and hopes that during his visit to the South Pole he will, in addition, witness climate change research.

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Orange glows...

Hi Lollie,

Sorry for the delay in answering, I'm back home and a couple weeks into the Spring semester with my students! quite a transition from the south pole. 

Orange is my favorite color!  But this is a complex question so hopefully I can keep it short!  The reason why the big...{read more}

January 23, 2010 - 10:08pm
Compass at the south pole?

Oh, that's a good question!  I can't vouch for the North Pole, but I met all kinds of people at the South Pole with all kinds of qualifications.  There were all the scientists doing research of course, most of them were in graduate school studying some aspect of science.  But there were also...{read more}

December 25, 2009 - 6:03pm
Leaving Already?

Hi Janet,

My time definitely flew while I was down there!  I definitely didn't finish my whole "to do" list. I guess I'll have to figure out how to get down there again!

I only had one night in McMurdo, but got to see Sarah while I was there.  It was good to catch up,...{read more}

December 20, 2009 - 2:04am
Compass at the south pole?

Hi Lilly,

great questions!  Yes, there are two north poles and two south poles.  The earth rotates around the geographic poles (just like on your globe) and the magnetic poles are where the compass points.  Did you get a chance to find out where the magnetic poles are?  Maybe you can get...{read more}

December 20, 2009 - 1:30am
Compass at the south pole?

Hi Kirsten,

I'm not sure exactly what your question is asking, maybe you can clarify.  Do you mean what equipment do we have to have for the cold? Or something else?

The equipment we need to survive in the cold is lots of thick clothing!  For the South Pole, we fly to New Zealand...{read more}

December 20, 2009 - 1:41am
Photo Request

Hi Tim, it is great to hear from you!  It has been an incredible experience.  Did you not have the 24 hour sunlight in your expedition?  I thought you were above the arctic circle. The polar day is pretty amazing, but not sure I'm quite up for the long polar night yet...

I am sure you...{read more}

December 20, 2009 - 1:56am
Compass at the south pole?

Hello to Mrs. LeBlanc's class!  This is a great question, because magnets are so much fun.

Two things that you might want to know: first off, there are actually two south poles - the "geographic" south pole, which is the axis of the earth - if you stood on this for a whole day,...{read more}

December 14, 2009 - 8:32pm
Question and Comments From

1st period questions:
hey all, it was great to hear from some of you the other day!  We finished filling the last round of IceTop tanks with water, so the DOMs will freeze in solid in about 53 days.  Good questions, let me throw out a few answers:

The junk in the Berms gets shipped...{read more}

December 14, 2009 - 12:10pm
uestion and Comments From

2nd period

Hi everyone!  I'm glad I had a chance to talk to a few of you on Friday - that was pretty neat, an intercontinental chat kinda thing.  I hope you are all doing well! things are great down here and we just finished putting in all our IceTop tanks for this season.

Actually...{read more}

December 14, 2009 - 12:11pm
Q's for Mr. O' Hara

Hi class, I had a good time presenting all the slides and pictures to you, I look forward to seeing you all in January too!

The cargo that's stored outside is a combination of stuff that is broken and waiting to be taken back for recycling (for example I saw some old broken exercise...{read more}

December 13, 2009 - 12:09pm

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