Many people from the Northeast head south for the winter, but scientist Lija Treibergs will be taking it to the extreme. The Paul Smith’s College Adirondack Watershed Institute research associate is going to Antarctica for three months starting in late November. It’s her second deployment to Antarctica to study lakes in dry valleys and conduct lab analysis at McMurdo Station. Treibergs says the work there helps inform her research in the Adirondacks.
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