Join Peggy Norris to hear about the story of explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton, told through the lens of her recent trip to Antarctica. A social hour will begin at 5:30 p.m., with the presentation to follow at 6 p.m.
Shackleton is best known as the leader of the disastrous 1914 expedition to Antarctica and the shipwreck of the Endurance, which was rediscovered on the floor of the Antarctic Ocean in March 2022. Shackleton's historic expedition took his crew to Elephant Island and South Georgia Island—places Norris visited on her own journey.
Norris was an experimental physicist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory until 2009, and the deputy director for Education & Outreach at the Sanford Underground Research Facility until 2022, when she retired.
Norris' trip to Antarctica was originally planned to coincide with the 2020 solar eclipse. The trip would have completed her mission to witness an eclipse on every continent. Due to the pandemic, the trip was rescheduled for December 2022.
