Antarctica - redux

The  Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Engineering Division communications people have put out a nice story about  Thorsten Stezelberger and my work in Antarctica - both ARIANNA and IceCube.  It is available at https://physicalsciences.lbl.gov/2025/10/14/visiting-antarctica-in-service-of-science/

This is somewhat timely, as the 2025/2026 Antarctic season ramps up.  For neutrino astronomy enthusiasts, this is a big one, featuring the deployment of the IceCube Upgrade.   The upgrade will consist of seven additional strings.  The strings will be densely packed (close together), with an energy threshold of a few GeV, giving IceCube a huge boost at low energies.  This should enable us to make a definitive measurement of tau-neutrino appearance through oscillations, and help us pin down the parameters for neutrino oscillation more precisely than previously possible.  The upgrade will also be filled with calibration devices that should allow us to measure the optical characteristics (scattering and absorption)  of the ice far more precisely.  this ice-property data should improve the accuracy of all IceCube measurements, by reducing our systematic uncertainties from ice property uncertainty.