Living beside the indigenous village of Kaktovic, Alaska, Seaquist becoming a specialist in flying twice-daily radiosonde balloon probes of the atmosphere and reporting on ice and weather conditions. He volunteered to follow that year in the Arctic with another in the Antarctic, this time as an American rep to the Argentine Antarctica deployment at Ellsworth Station where he again flew radiosondes for upper atmosphere measurements and made ices measurements as part of the global weather tracking system.
Living near the indigenous village of Kaktovic, Alaska, Seaquist became an expert in conducting twice-daily radiosonde balloon launches into the atmosphere and reporting on ice and weather conditions. He volunteered to continue that work in the Arctic the following year and then in Antarctica, serving as a U.S. representative for the Argentine Antarctica deployment at Ellsworth Station where he again launched radiosondes for upper-atmosphere measurements and made ice measurements as part of the global weather tracking system.