Explorer Sarah Bouckoms is a scientist and educator who has worked in Antarctica since 2008. This Antarctic summer, she’s fulfilling a lifelong dream by traveling to the IceCube Neutrino Observatory at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station in Antarctica to help build a telescope–and she’s taking us with her! From November 2025 through February 2026, Sarah will show us how the IceCube Neutrino Observatory detects neutrinos through a network of 5,000 individual neutrino detectors drilled into a cubic kilometer section of the Antarctic Ice Sheet. What are neutrinos, what can they tell us about the universe, and what’s it like to live and work at the South Pole?
Sarah will show us LIVE as part of a 12-week virtual exchange program in partnership with the IceCube Neutrino Laboratory and Reach the World. Visit the Detecting Cosmic Messengers at the South Pole expedition homepage for more information, and register your class for the full virtual exchange at bit.ly/rtwexplore. What questions do you have for Sarah? Let’s go on an incredible journey together to the bottom of the world–in order to see to the edge of the universe!
