We prepare the expedition to Antarctica

We are going to Antarctica!!! Do you want to join me virtually? But first, the introductions. My name is Sergi González and I am a meteorologist and postdoctoral researcher in the WSL Institute for the Snow and Avalanche Research (SLF) in Davos, Switzerland. I was born in Barcelona, that warm and snowless Mediterranean city. But what does a guy from Barcelona in the middle of the Swiss Alps? My research focuses on understanding how polar and high mountain climates will evolve, with special attention to snow; and what better way than to research it in a town covered in snow for 5 months a year.

As I said, we are going to Antarctica. This will be my fourth campaign. I have previously been on two campaigns as a meteorologist at bases managed by the Spanish Antarctic program, and I have worked in another campaign for a project called MICROAIRPOLAR to understand the microorganisms carried by the air and where they come from. But this campaign will be different. Until now I have always ben in the coastal regions of Antarctica, but this time we will go deep into the interior of the continent. The objective: to instrument a 30-meter-high tower to study the turbidity, the snow that rises up in the wind. Later I will explain in more detail why it is important to understand this.