Hi PolarTREC teachers south-bound soon! As you are doing your packing, you don't have to bring a lot of heavy books - there is a great library here and there are also lots of give-away books for light reading at the library and in skua.
If you can't handle fly-away hair consider bringing those dryer sheets to keep static down. I have a small hot water heater I'll give to Ann when she comes. If you like good coffee first thing in the morning, bring your own, but there is coffee in the galley and in Crary Lab as well.
E-mail me any more questions at mbell [at] polartrec.com and I'll try to answer them. We got our SCINI submersible in the dive hole last night and got to see some cool stuff underwater - sponges, anemones, nemertean worms, and starfish. Pretty cool!
Mindyu