Presentation prepared for the Rochester Community Schools Board of Education related to the PolarTREC 2017 Neutron Monitors for Solar Study expedition.
Eric Thuma, a physics teacher at Stoney Creek High School, recently spent three weeks in Antarctica assisting in scientific polar research.
Eric Thuma stands on the McMurdo Ice Sheet, preparing to extract a seismometer. (Photo provided by Dr. Doug MacAyeal)
Local news source in Rochester, MI covers the deployment of Eric Thuma to McMurdo Station.
Installing Seismic Stations on Glacial Ice with crevasses in Antarctica
PolarTREC teacher Brian DuBay tours the Scott Hut and checks out some Weddell Seals and Antarctic Toothfish.