For a while this will be focused on my trips to the South Pole to work on ARA and IceCube experiments as a physicist and instrumentation scientist from the Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center at the University of Wisconsin.
Here Dr. DuVernois will ponder the world, the web, and all things in the middle. If that isn't a noble enough project, I'll also post interesting links. This web journal is held in lieu of a writing journal and continues my UMN, MySpace, and Facebook blogs.
Thursday, December 30, 2010
Hot water drilling
Our deeper holes are drilled with hot water, using a modified version of the IceCube hot water trencher. It drilled holes down to 40m for us this year, and next year should be making 200-250m dry (pumped-out) holes, all of them 6" in diameter.
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