Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 12/12/2006 - 14:29
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Oden Antarctic Expedition 06

Dear Mr. Miller,

As we look at all of the exciting photos and follow your experiences, I feel very fortunate for our class to be included.  I am also very impressed you were able to answer the long list of questions!  Thank you for taking the time.

My question is if there are safety precautions you all have to take while traveling on the icebreaker and if so, what are they?

Safe travels!

Warmly,

Angela Lambert/Barrett Elementary

Tue, 12/12/2006 - 16:10

Nancy Tashima

Aloha from balmy Kona, Hawaii !I would like to extend a fond ALOHA to my good friend,
Mr. Miller and of course, Mrs. Chippy, too. Thank you for providing such a wonderful and worthwhile educational experience for students and adults around the planet!!
My question is: "Will you be completing any special experiments
or specific data collection while on the ice?"

Wed, 12/13/2006 - 11:52

Guest

I'm a second grader in San Jose, California.  How far away is Antrarctica from California?

Sun, 01/07/2007 - 12:14

Allan Miller

This trip definitely reminded me what a huge planet we have here.  From Antarctica we flew for 5 hours to get to New Zealand, then it was another 12 hours of flying to get to Los Angeles California.  The weird thing is that according to the clock on the wall in Los Angeles - the whole trip from New Zealand all the way to Cal. took less than an hour - we left Christchurch at 1 PM on Friday, and got to Los Angeles at 1:30 PM on Friday (including a long layover in Auckland).  That funny international dateline again!For Nancy - there is a great post that Ute just put up that is our final science report from Brent Stewart, our chief scientist on board.  It talks about all of the projects that we had going on board.  Suffice to say that we all worked real hard and science was happening 24 hours per day - looking at ice, animals, and various water measurements.  And the SOLO data will be collected remotely by the probe for the next 4-5 years if the device operates as planned.  Pretty cool.
Allan