I moved into my home away from home, Quonset hut #166A located at the old site of the U.S. Navel Arctic Research Laboratory (NARL) in Barrow Alaska.
Quonset Hut #166! located on the old site of the…
Leaving New Yorks JFK Thursday night at 6:30pm my plane flew West landing about 5 hours later in Seattle Washington. My next flight headed North, past the Arctic Circle and over an amazing array of…
I must go down to the seas again, to the vagrant gypsy life, To the gull's way and the whale's way, where the wind's like a whetted knife; And all I ask is a merry yarn from a laughing fellow-rover,…
They caught my attention immediately.
It’s funny how something so obvious and expected can stop you in your tracks. A casual observation on my first day in Fairbanks was the missing company of the…
Entering the Wardrobe!
Nineteen educators and ARCUS staff disappeared into the ice encrusted, impossibly tiny red hut tucked against the hill. Following at the end of the line I watched as everyone…
Isn’t technology amazing!
This morning I threw off the covers at 4:00 a.m. Alaskan Time, 8:00am Eastern Standard Time, to go outside to meet more than 400 Springs School students in the icy morning…
So what do educators, who have been selected to join a research expedition to the Polar Regions, do between the hours of 8pm and 8am, when they have some time off from the scheduled PolarTREC…
Listen to Baby It's Cold Outside. Go to Audio tab and click on audio link.
PolarTREC educators learn how to dress for their Arctic and Antarctic expeditions.
Dressing for Success in the Polar…
PolarTREC Orientation in Fairbanks Alaska
We finished day two of our PolarTREC Orientation/ShareFair today, and my head is pleasantly swirling with information overload! Happily, despite my sleep…
Crunch, crunch, crunch!
The snow in Alaska gives a crackle and creak beneath my boots that’s distinctly different from walking through the moist, warm, soft snow typical of Springs back in East…
