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The Team

The Antarctic Sun is produced by the U.S. Antarctic Program’s prime contractor, Raytheon Polar Services Company (RPSC).

Valerie Carroll, RPSC Communications manager, serves as the publisher of the online site.

Peter Rejcek

Peter Rejcek serves as the editor of The Antarctic Sun. He worked for the Sun two austral summer seasons and spent a year at the South Pole (2003-2004) as a carpenter helper. He has been to all three USAP research stations, with more than 24 months of Ice time. Before joining the USAP, he worked more than three years in warmer climes as assistant editor for a newspaper in the Marshall Islands, as well as for daily and weekly papers in Texas for about five years.

Miranda DeZwarte is an employment recruiter at Raytheon Polar Services who has kindly volunteered her free time as a copy editor. She helped edit her campus newspaper at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee while working on a Communication degree with a minor in Journalism and Mass Communication. 

Susan J. Allspaw Pomeroy is an Information Security Analyst at Raytheon Polar Services who has kindly volunteered her free time as a copy editor. She has been involved with the USAP for more than 10 years. She’s a published poet, and taught creative writing and composition for six years prior to joining the USAP.

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