Zoom call from a camp on Lake Fryxell, a frozen lake 4.5 kilometers long, between Canada Glacier and Commonwealth Glaciers at the lower end of Taylor Valley in Victoria Land, Antarctica. Krista Myers spoke to a group of local climate groups in Santa Cruz, CA (Santa Cruz Climate Action Network, and Citizens Climate Lobby, Santa Cruz) about the MCM LTER and her job as a technician. She showed the group the field camp and spoke about the challenges of collecting climate data and why it is so important to collect long term datasets.