Welcome back, explorers! Today you’re in for a treat because I have the pleasure of introducing one of our “coolest” team members, Tom Paynter. Tom is an electrical engineer by trade, but prefers the title “electron wrangler”. He helps ensure that all of our instruments are working properly and all the data is being transmitted. Tom is one of the literally “coolest” people I’ve met because before embarking on the Denman Marine Voyage, he had just returned from 18 months at Davis Station, Antarctica. In fact, Tom helped take some of my samples over the last year and a half while he was at Davis and I will be bringing those samples back for analysis after this trip! I wanted to share Tom’s experience with all of you so that you can have the Antarctic experience from both ship and from land!
Tom loves Antarctica and has spent a majority of the last two years “down South”. He said he first got the idea of applying to work in Antarctica while he was in his first year of university, where he first saw Antarctic ice cores while walking through the physics building. He was immediately hooked!
