What is in a day at the King Sejong station..
It is not easy to write a blog from Antarctica... Everyone wants to hear exciting things, see amazing photos. It is amazing, yes.. The glaciers around. Our iceberg melting and turning but not going away. Cloud shapes.. Sometimes repeating the shape of our iceberg.. But everything, including the icebergs, becomes a routine. And the iceberg is there whatever we do. Work is nonstop – checking the weather forecast, measuring, sampling, preparing sensors, testing them, installing, launching radiosondes, studying the profiles, checking cloud height, writing notes, saving data, plotting and checking results, disinfecting sampling material, again sampling, measuring… I will try to tell a bit about our daily routing – let’s see if you stay with me until the end without pretty photos:) Our day today started “unusually” – with a lake sensor testing in our so called “Dry Lab”. Photo: Testing lake sensor in the Dry Lab. ©Irina Gorodetskaya Photo: Weather forecast for the day (we use publi