It's been a little over two months since I left Alaska and it already seems like a lifetime ago. I have been working to keep the networks strong that I began to build while in Fairbanks and have…
On the final day of training in Fairbanks, I took an intensive short course to learn some basic survival skills for working in the field. While on my expedition there is a possiblity of dangerous…
After another morning of training, we headed to learn about what lies beneath in the Permafrost Tunnel. The tunnel was created during the 1960s to study geology in permafrost. I imagined permafrost…
It has been a whirlwind of training over the past two days. I have learned so much! On Tuesday morning, just as I was starting to feel overwhelmed by the training, we got news that the first dog sled…
The whole process of applying to PolarTREC has been a bit like a dream; the kind that you don't want to wake up from. I keep saying to myself:
"Is this for real?"
"Am I really getting this…
