07-07-2025
A remote research station conducts critical science far from civilization
The first time I stepped out of a plane onto the Greenland ice sheet, the cold hit me like nothing I had experienced before. Coming from Colorado, I've learned to enjoy being outdoors in the freezing temperatures of winter, but this was extreme.
It was early May 2024 at Summit Station, one of the National Science Foundation's research outposts in Greenland, and the conditions were particularly cold for spring: minus-40 degrees with 20-mph winds, creating a wind chill of a brisk 75 below zero Fahrenheit.
