Chaz Firestone, a student at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, will be in Antarctica in early January 2010 on a media trip sponsored by the US National Science Foundation. His dispatches for Nature from The Ice will be appearing on our In The Field blog.

He has a jam-packed schedule touring some of the continent’s top US science facilities, and the lucky beggar also promises to make those of us stuck in the office jealous with regular photographs of “pristine landscapes, highly specialized scientific equipment and the inhabitants of the continent”.

Why not ask him a question about his trip?