Howard Matis' trip to Antarctica (2000-2001)
	Photo of sun dog (on left) on earlier LBNL trip to Antarctica

The Trip

• Day 1: Trip to New Zealand. Purpose of experiment.
• Day 2: Getting clothes for South Pole. Detecting neutrinos.
• Day 3: Flying from Christchurch to Antarctica. Detecting muons.
• Day 4: McMurdo base camp, trying to get to the Pole. Detecting light from muons.
• Day 5: Second try at Pole. Getting light signal data.
• Day 6: At the South Pole. Why use digital signals.
• Day 7: Finding the actual Pole.
• Day 8: Working on electronics.
• Days 9 & 10: Where we live.
• Days 11 & 12: Hiking visitors. Problems with electronics.
• Day 13: The Norwegian adventurers.
• Day 14: Preparing for Christmas. Marking DOM sites.
• Days 15 & 16: Christmas celebrations. Around the Pole race.
• Days 17 & 18: Sun Dogs. Measuring electrical noise in DOMs.
• Days 19 & 20: Dutch explorers. Putting DOMs into the ice.
• Day 21: Dutch explorers' talk. History room.
• Days 22 & 23: New Year's Eve. 10 teenagers. New Pole. Images of camp.
• Day 24: "Fashion". Working in the Dome.
• Day 25: Flying home: volcanoes, seals, and icebreakers.

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Thanks to Andrea Erzberber for collecting and creating this site.