Katey Shirey
About
Expeditions:
IceCube In-ice Antarctic Telescope 2010
Occupation:
Teacher
Organization:
Washington-Lee High School
Katey Shirey grew up loving physics and art and, as an undergraduate at the University of Virginia, she continually combined her two passions. She attempted to explain physics and physical phenomenon through large-scale kinetic sculptures and installations. Today Miss Shirey continues to examine the relationship of Physics to various aspects of the world around her through teaching and facilitating student learning at Washington-Lee High School in Arlington, Virginia. She is excited to examine what scientists do and how science conducted far away impacts our understanding of the universe, and sees this as an ideal way to draw connections between physics to students' lives.
Katey Shirey's Content
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March 11, 2011 Final reflections from my trip to the South Pole. |
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December 15, 2010 Leaving McMurdo, leaving Antarctica |
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December 14, 2010 Julie Katch-draftsman in Mcmurdo |
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December 11, 2010 Leaving the South Pole |
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December 11, 2010 Inside the IceCube Lab |
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December 7, 2010 Tank Fill |
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December 6, 2010 Feels like Antarctica |
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December 6, 2010 Solar S'mores at the Pole! |
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December 5, 2010 Hole 80 is complete! |
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December 4, 2010 Oxyhemoglobin saturation update and interview. |
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| How do you get chosen to be a researcher at the South Pole? | Video | 28 November 2011 | |
| Almost Fool-Proof Cloud Chamber | Activity | 28 November 2011 | |
| Solar Oven Science | Activity | 28 November 2011 |
It's pretty hard to narrow down the list of neat things about IceCube to five things only, but I'll try my best.
By identifying sources of neutrinos IceCube will help us to understand our universe in completely new ways. The IceCube research can even lead to understandings...{read more}
The "map" will be documentation of the sources of high energy neutrinos detected by IceCube. Hopefully we'll be able to isolate spots with high neutrino activity and learn more about what's out there causing the high energy neutrinos. We suspect that the neutrinos will come from known and...{read more}
Hi Andrew, Sorry it's taken me a while to get back to you. My plan is to ask the experts on this because I don't know! I'm forwarding your message to someone back at pole who will hopefully get back to me and then I'll post back to you.
{read more}Dear Mrs. Weidman's class,
I know that there have been at least three deaths here since 1972. These are documented in the hallway. I also know that many early explorers lost their...{read more}
Does the O2 range from 86 to 94 correspond to activity periods?
What a great observation! I don't know. I will start to keep better track and maybe we'll reach a conclusion.
I noticed in the library there were what looked like phone booths on the left. Is that what they were?...{read more}
It took me four days to get all the way to the South Pole. The first 28 hours of travel was just to get to Christchurch, New Zealand. The next day I tried on and checked out all of my Extreme Cold Weather gear (...{read more}
Unfortunately, I don't think you can, unless you're here at the pole. The shared site is on a common drive here at the pole and we can access it through the pole intranet even when the internet is out. Sorry!
Is there something in particular you'd like to see more of? Perhaps I can post...{read more}
Dear Carina,
It's nice to hear from you. To answer your questions, From everywhere on the globe getting to the South Pole means going directly, exactly, south. However, I didn't do that exactly. I flew West and South to Christchurch, New Zealand where I adjusted to a time 18 hours ahead...{read more}
Our real alititude here at pole is 9,300 ft. But the pressure here recently has been around 670 mb and below. That means that the equivalent altitude based on atmospheric pressure is roughly 10,671 ft, and it was 11,000 ft earlier this week!
Yes, it altitude makes me feel groggy and out...{read more}
Dear Period 6:
If you put a cup outside, how long will it take for it to freeze? Lester, Albert, and Chris
I'm not sure, and I haven't tried it, but I do know that I've accidentally left my water bottle in my pocket while I've been working outside. In that scenario, with it...{read more}