There are plenty of opportunities for adventurous treatment plant operators, but none so much as the McMurdo Station treatment plant in Antarctica.
There is a period during summer when the sun never breaches the horizon and in winter when the sun doesn’t set. Temperatures are frigid year-round, and psychological challenges abound. Despite that, Jeanne Sabin, formerly an operator with the Sacramento (California) Regional County Sanitation District, jumped at the opportunity to work there for five months.
Today, she continues her adventurous streak as a Ph.D. student in the University of California, Davis civil and environmental engineering department. As part of her
