Just Another Thule Thursday
Hello, everyone! Today was a scheduled ground day for me so that I could meet all of you through our PolarCONNECT event, but I started the day off at Hangar 8 to join…
South Canada Basin Transect
Today we flew the South Canada Basin sea ice mission. On the map below, you can trace our path which took us through 3 way points: Canada Basin South A (CBSA), Canada…
Teacher Takes Flight
Today I woke up to clear sunny skies, the sound of melting ice and snow from our rooftop, and a good feeling about today's flight. After a quick breakfast and a muddy, icy walk…
Grounded
Waking up this morning at the break of dawn (is it considered dawn when there is no sunrise or sunset?) was easy to do with thoughts of our first science flight buzzing in my head. I had…
The Moment We've Been Waiting For!!!
We have experienced the arctic, its beauty, its chill, the culture and history surrounding it. We have learned about the data collected by Operation IceBridge,…
Straight to Work
It's been a full night's sleep since the P3 rolled in and, while there is no science flight on the agenda, that does not mean there is no work to be done! I tagged along with the…
Brand New Adventure
Everyday brings something new and exciting here in Thule. I moved from the quirky Chicken Farm flat top we grew to love to the North Star Inn and said goodbye to many of the…
Station Nord
It looks like we have a few days until Miss Piggy gets back to us and we can get on some science flights, so today we did the next best thing. There is a Danish military station at 81.…
Astounding, spectacular, stupendous, sensational, wondrous, amazing, incredible, good...not finding it. There is not a word in the book to describe what today felt like, so I'll invite you to relive…
Hello, everyone! We will be heading out on science flights soon as the team makes their way back from Fairbanks, later this week. In the meantime, I have had some wonderful opportunities to learn…
Living and working on the edge of one of the only two ice sheets in this great big world is a truly humbling experience. An ice sheet is defined as a mass of glacier ice which covers an area of land…
The data collected by NASA's Operation IceBridge campaign is distributed to research groups all over the world who are studying the poles to improve models of Earth's changing ice sheets. But how is…
