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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.

Kim Silverman is the NSF Polar Information program manager, and serves as the primary liaison between the Foundation and RPSC for content produced on this site.

Nicole Bonham-Colby ensures that we don't stray too far from the properly written word as one of our copy editors. Currently a senior technical writer at RPSC, Nicole is a former newspaper reporter, business magazine editor, industry columnist and radio news director.

Peter Rejcek

Susan J. Allspaw Pomeroy works as an Information security analyst for RPSC, but has been involved with the USAP since 1999. Her work as a poet, college writing instructor, technical writer, and literary magazine editor make her a relentless copy editor.

Peter Rejcek serves as the editor of The Antarctic Sun. He has worked for the Sun two austral summer seasons and spent a year at the South Pole (2003-2004) as a carpenter helper. 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.

Our IT Multimedia web group includes a web editor who is a published and award-winning writer with an extensive background in editing web content, and web developers who are experts in designing and managing web sites. They ensure the Sun follows web standards, root out any technical blips, and polish and publish the pages.

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