Researchers from the Department of Physics were featured on the national science program CBC Radio: Quirks & Quarks for summer fieldwork that took them two kilometers deep underground, and 40 kilometers up high in the Earth’s stratosphere.
Madeleine Zurowski, a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Physics, has been helping install dark matter detectors underground at SNOLAB in Sudbury, Ontario, as part of a project called SuperCDMS, an international collaboration that is researching the nature of dark matter. (Clip begins at 8:29.)
In this image, Dr. Madeleine Zurowski works on installing dark matter detectors in Sudbury's underground lab, SNOLAB.
Working with the Canadian Space Agency, Kaley Walker, a professor in the Department of Physics, sent a massive balloon — 30 stories tall and 800,000 cubic meters in volume — on a high-altitude transatlantic flight from Sweden to Nunavut, to measure stratospheric gases. (Clip begins at 26:21.)
In this image, the Canadian Space Agency collects a transatlantic balloon in Nunavut, which started its flight in Sweden.
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