Just chilling: Yale researchers share some of their coldest moments
In Reina Maruyama’s line of work, you can’t call yourself a real scientist until you’ve flirted with frostbite while scouting for subatomic particles at the South Pole.
Graduate student Mengnan Zhao, shown here on an ice floe in the Arctic Circle. Behind her is a Canadian Coast Guard icebreaker. (Photo by Richard Krishfield / Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute)