Antarctic Experience

I have been fortunate to have spent six seasons on the Ice, and with each deployment, I have been promoted to positions of greater responsibility. During my deployements, I won various awards (which included a substantial financial bonus) from the National Science Foundation, and I was only one of two people on station to be given a Level 5 evaluation during Winter and I started a Peer Counselling team and ran the training for four years, and the group is still a vital part of operations for McMurdo station today.

My jobs have been incredibly fun, hard work, challenging, exhausting, educational....and yes, cold!

Too numerous to detail, I am just listing some of my roles I have played during six deployemnts, with a brief slideshow following....

Distinguished Visitor Coordinator (my favorite position!)

DA Supervisor in the Galley

Air Services Rep (completing pax manifests for flights, debriefing flight crews, liasing with weather and air traffic controllers, driving pax

Delta Driver

Forklift Operator (Heavy Equipment Operators License)

Crane Operator for ship offload

Primary Search and Rescue Team Member

Logistics Supervisor

Supply Manager

Dive Tender

Coordinator for moving the Medical Facility from the old Dome to the new station at South Pole. Received Award

Established Peer Counselling Group, Director (liasing with a psychiatrist in Denver and Human Resources for personnel struggling with life on the Ice)

Hokey Pokey Ice Cream and Marmite Eater at Scott Base

Skidoo Trainer

Mactruck driver

Hagglund Operator for Search and Rescue