Thursday, September 20, 2007
Glistening sheets of ice extended as far as he could see in every direction. Temperatures plummeted to –30 degrees Celsius. And the sun never set. This was the scene of Jerome Mitchell’s 2005-2006 winter break. He was in the most southern, frigid, windiest spot on Earth—Antarctica. For a month during his junior year at Elizabeth City State University, he lived, ate, slept and researched there, operating the software for a plane radar with a team of scientists from the Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets, a polar research center with headquarters at the University of Kansas. Mitchell, Chesapeake, Va., graduate student, is now pursuing his master’s in computer science at the University.
The youngest participant on the National Science Foundation-sponsored project, Mitchell spent Christmas and New Year’s Day there, all the while working upwards of 12 hours a day collecting and processing data on the ice shelf. And although, regrettably, he wasn’t able to see penguins during his stay, he took away a lot from his frigid travels. He learned how to set up tents on ice, survive in one of the harshest places in the world, and, he adds, how to better appreciate the seemingly small comforts of everyday life.
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