The Operators at the End of Nowhere: Treating Antarctica's Wastewater

Jeanne Sabin always liked the idea of going to Mars. When an opportunity arose to operate a wastewater treatment facility at the most analogous place on this planet — Antarctica — she took it. Spending five months at the bottom of the world in Southern Hemisphere summer, when the sun never sets, was “psychologically intensive” for Sabin, but also an experience like nothing else on earth. “I saw my last sunset the second or third week there, and I didn’t see the sun set below the horizon again until I was flying away. It was once-in-a-lifetime. It’s an experience that