Youth Water Leaders LIVE flier
Weather and Climate Change from the North Pole to the Mainland Youth (and the young at heart) are invited to this virtual event with Ignatius Rigor Ph.D. Director of the International Arctic Buoy…
Wolverine Buoy Deployment
Five months later, two of the eleven weather buoys deployed by the International Arctic Buoy Program Sea Cadet students are still collecting and sending data. Check out this map to see the buoy named…
Map shows initial buoy deployments
Buoys Deployed in Arctic Ocean A global pandemic could not stop the International Arctic Buoy Program from deploying drifting weather buoys into the Arctic Ocean off the coast of Utqiaġvik, Alaska…
CoCoRaHS Precipitation Gauge
Tomorrow, if everything was going as it was only 3 weeks ago, I would be embarking on an adventure of a lifetime with a science expedition team to place real-time weather buoys on the sea ice of the…
Utqiagvik Buoy Exercise 2020 Cancelled
THIS Time - There WILL Be Another Time As expected, the National Science Foundation, PolarTREC, and The Arctic Research Consortium of the United States (ARCUS) have officially canceled my…
Orientation Participation from Colorado
Sitting on the porch after the first morning of our virtual orientation I had a new profound sense of how just how blessed I am to be selected to be part of the PolarTREC professional community. I…
Be flexible with lost luggage, getting sick, delayed flights, missed trains, date changes, weather... I didn’t expect an international viral outbreak to be on that list. Yet, I must remain flexible.…
Google Earth image of Alaska
I love maps! And I love teaching others to use maps. Check out this Google Earth Project to see just where we're headed in early April. It'll work best on a desktop computer (not your smartphone) I'…
Utqiaġvik Buoy Exercise 2020
This adventure officially begins 23 days from now. I'm headed north on ApriI 1st to meet the team in Girdwood, Alaska to prepare for a school outreach event in Whittier, Alaska on April 3rd. Then on…