Dr Matthew Lazzara  is a meteorologist, he is faculty and department chair for physical sciences at MATC and also a senior scientist at UW-Madison.  In both roles he is part of a team of scientists who work with automatic weather stations for the US Antarctic Program. With around 60 weather stations across Antarctica, they are observing surface weather across an area bigger than the US and Mexico combined. While Antarctica may be a world away, many of the weather tools they use there can also be found on farms here in Wisconsin.