Here are three great photos of our Antarctica pen pal in the US Antarctic Program, John Miller, USAP.
He sent us these while I was in Pittsburgh, and I finally got them up on the blog.
In the first photo he is at work with another man outside in extreme weather near McMurdo Station on Ross Island, the Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica. I'm not sure what John is doing in this photo, but his expertise is with electricity. Last year when we were in constant email contact with, he was stationed at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station and was in charge of all the electricity for that base. As you can imagine, having electricity can be a matter of life or death in Antarctica.
In the next photo John is again in the field but in much better weather. Again, he is working with electricity And finally, in the last photo he is taking a break, lounging in a "sun chair" at McMurdo Station.
Ah, yes, that's the life for me -- relaxing in sunny Antarctica!
But it sure is different from New Orleans
-- Adrian
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