Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 01/08/2009 - 10:40

Dear Jeff,

-Just wanted to say thank you to you, the Oden Team of scientists and staff, and to Janet and Kristin for providing the webinar yesterday and sharing your journey with us.

We thank you for sharing the scientific research, the spirit of adventure, the passion for life and life-long learning, and the deep emotion that you shared yesterday and throughout your Oden expedition. You are quite a human being Jeff.

Your journal, responses to questions, photos and videos have provided many with a powerful light of learning on polar science and the incredible sense of place that is the Antarctic.

"I think over again my small adventures, My Fears                                                Those small ones that seemed so big,- For all the vital things I had to get and to reach, -And yet there is only one great thing, The Only Thing, To Live to see the Great Day that Dawns, And the Light that fills the World."   -Inuit Song

The Journey is the destination.

Thank You Jeff.

Ben Smith and his Environmental Science Students at Peninsula High School

Rolling Hills, California Smile