I have spent over a good decade studying hydroclimatology of Dry Valleys, Antarctica, trying to understand how lake ice covers and frozen ground respond to anthropogenic forcing. I dove under the ice in perennially ice-covered lakes and McMurdo Sound, GPR’ed surveyed 150 kilometers of permafrost, designed/improved and took care of five lake monitoring stations, and kept the network of long-term met stations going. I’ve worked on several projects from McMurdo Dry Valleys Long Term Monitoring project to NASA astrobiology project where we deployed an autonomous underwater vehicle in one of the perennially ice-covered lakes as proof-of-concept for future missions to Europa and alike.