Ariel Waldman

Doesn't mean they're going to be like, yeah, hop on the plane with me.

You're probably beginning a multi-year relationship with researchers.

That's genuine.

That may lead to you collaborating with those researchers.

But in those cases, you need to approach it with, you know, a sense of being humble and having an idea of like where you want to contribute and being okay with having like just a legitimate conversation about like, hey, I would love to get involved in Antarctic science, maybe in this area.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Show your interest and just don't expect that you're going to get like a ticket to Antarctica that year.

You know, you're beginning a multi-year thing.

Yeah.

Solar is great for the summer work.

New Zealand has a number of wind turbines and I think they primarily use those.

The U.S.

program mirrors the U.S.

while we do get some electricity through sustainable sources like solar and wind.

There's other things that are using propane and more gases and stuff.

And so that's why some people have equated going to McMurdo Station as feeling like you're part of a mining town because you do have vehicles that are using diesel or something.

It's not all space age.

It does mirror the U.S.

And that's sort of what you get in Antarctica is you go to different stations and it sort of mirrors the state of those different nations.